After getting up and washing up early in the morning, Yingbao went to feed the chickens and ducks at home, and then drove them out of the yard.
Pick up a dozen chicken and duck eggs from the chicken coop and put them in a straw basket.
Then go to the kitchen and fill the two large water vats with water.
Chunniang had already gotten up to cook. She first cooked a large pot of rice porridge, then mixed a bowl of batter and made egg pancakes.
The side dishes include homemade sweet and sour garlic, fermented soybeans and stinky tofu.
This stinky tofu is actually not stinky. It is made from naturally fermented tofu and tastes very delicious.
Some radish slices and coriander are added to the tofu, making it a great side dish for rice. Mr. Wu loves this stinky tofu the most and he eats it at every meal.
"Yingbao, are you planning to stay at home?" Mr. Wu asked while drinking porridge.
Yingbao nodded.
She felt that her life was good now. She had cured all the people with carbuncles in the surrounding villages without even realizing it. Until today, no one came to her for treatment.
It's no wonder. People in the village haven't been sick much in recent years. Even if a child has a headache or fever, he can just ask Yingbao for a bowl of medicine.
The herbs used for treating diseases were picked from the wild by the villagers. They kept some for themselves and gave the rest to the little doctor.
Mr. Wu asked again: "Yingbao, have you ever thought about visiting Shu?"
Yingbao shook her head: "As the saying goes, parents are not far away, so I will stay at home with my parents."
The upper and lower floors of the cave were kept in perfect order by her parents, which saved her a lot of trouble. She didn't want to leave her parents and wander around.
Mr. Wu picked up an egg pancake, spread some stinky tofu on it, rolled it up and ate it happily, saying, "Your uncle Wu's term will end in two years. I don't know if he will stay on."
His son did not want to stay in office and even had the idea of resigning, which made Mr. Wu very anxious.
He wanted Yingbao to persuade his son, maybe he would change his mind.
"Uncle Wu will definitely not stay in office." Yingbao was very sure.
In her dream, Wu Daozi returned to Beijing to continue his post and was promoted to a higher rank. He later served as an official in Yuzhou Prefecture.
Mr. Wu didn't say anything and just ate his egg pancake wrapped with stinky tofu.
It doesn't matter if that brat doesn't become an official. Then he and his son can settle down here. Then they can find a wife for their son, even if she's a girl from the village. As long as the Wu family can expand, her status doesn't matter at all.
The old man watched the little kids running around every day, feeling very envious. He wished his son would get married immediately and give him a bunch of grandchildren.
At that time, I will not have to worry about it and train them to become talents, like Jiang Jie.
Yingbao had no idea what Mr. Wu was thinking, so she went to write after dinner.
Actually, I am writing about what I need to buy.
I still need to buy some seeds and farm tools, and I also need to take out a few gourds to hold water.
Most of the Jiang family's land is now managed by hired farmers, so Chunniang and Jiang Sanlang are not very busy.
But you still have to keep an eye on it when sowing, otherwise you may accidentally use up too many seeds.
After dinner, everyone went about their own business, and soon Chunniang and her daughter were the only ones left at home.
Chunniang cleaned up the dishes and picked up the basket to go to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables.
Then he saw three people standing outside his house.
"Who are you looking for?" Chunniang became alert when she saw the stranger.
The visitor smiled and said, "We are here to seek medical advice. May I ask if your little miracle doctor is at home?"
"Where are you from?" Chunniang asked when she saw their strange accent.
One of them showed a flash of impatience, but still smiled and said, "We are from the neighboring village. Someone in our family is seriously ill, so we want to ask the little doctor to come and see us."
Chunniang refused outright: "I'm so sorry, my daughter is just a little girl and never sees patients. If you want to see a doctor, you'd better bring the patient here."
"You..." One of them said with a fierce look on his face, "Don't refuse my toast and drink the penalty wine!"
The other person waved his hand and said, "Just be patient."
The fierce-looking man then shut up.
Chunniang's face darkened and she said, "I am a woman at home. Please go back. It would be bad if my husband saw you."
As he said this, he was about to close the door.
Two of them worked together to hold the gate, while the other one slowly walked into the yard.
Chunniang took a few steps back and was about to shout when someone suddenly covered her mouth and nose.
After a moment of confusion, Chunniang fell to the ground.
Several people walked into the yard, closed the door, and quickly rushed towards the main house.
When they arrived at the main house, they didn't see anyone, so they went to search another room, but still no one was there.
"No one, what should I do?"
They squatted outside and waited for a long time before they entered the house after the family went out, but the little girl was not in the house.
"How is it possible? I clearly saw that she did not go out, how could she disappear?" This man was a scout, had very good observation skills, and was absolutely confident in his judgment.
The leader said with a gloomy face: "Go wake up that woman and interrogate her." After the interrogation, she must be killed to prevent future troubles.
So the other two ran out of the house and looked around but couldn't find the woman. They also checked the gate of the yard and saw that it was locked, so it didn't look like anyone had gone out.
"What happened?" The two were shocked and turned back to the house to report to the boss, but the boss was also missing.
"Something's wrong! Let's go!" The two men turned around and left. When they passed the door, one of them was hit on the back of the head with a stick by someone who suddenly appeared.
The man fell to the ground.
The other person was so frightened that he ran towards the gate of the courtyard for his life.
Jiang Sanlang chased after him with an iron rod and soon knocked the man to the ground.
Yingbao came out of the house, put the corpse into the cave, and then went to open the gate.
There was no one outside, nor behind the haystack.
Yingbao turned around and went back to bring her father into the cave.
At this time, there were three people lying in the cave, two of them were dead and one was unconscious.
Jiang Sanlang gave his wife a bottle of medicine, and it took a while for Chunniang to wake up.
Yingbao was relieved when she saw her mother woke up.
She had heard someone talking to A Niang in the house before, and then she realized something was wrong. Ying Bao actually knew one of the people in the conversation. He was a close friend of Chen Guanglu, who used to work in the county government but was later dismissed by Wu Daozi.
She instantly understood what was going on and wanted to go out to help A Niang, but she didn't expect that they used some kind of medicine that made A Niang unconscious.
Yingbao was immediately furious, and quietly slipped to the door and hid behind it, entering the cave in an instant.
After thinking that these people had entered the house to search, she quickly showed up, ran out to retrieve her mother, and then went to look for her father.
At this time, the father was picking grapes in the orchard in the cave, preparing to make wine. When he heard what his daughter said, he was afraid that they would hurt his family, so he immediately picked up an iron rod and knocked one of them down.
With the help of his daughter, Jiang Sanlang successfully knocked down the other two.
When they brought these people in, they found that two of them had died on the spot.
Jiang Sanlang dragged the living person to the corner and found a thin hemp rope to tie his hands and feet.
He had cordoned off an area here with reed mats, intending to build a granary here so that he could move in the extra grain at home. This was just the right time to use it for interrogating people.
Jiang Sanlang stared at the man for a while, then picked up a needle and poked it on his philtrum.
"Ah!" The man screamed and was awakened by the sound of a scream.