"Borrowing money? Who will pay it back??" Mrs. Li continued.
Yu Hai glared at her, and said with a hint of anger: "Of course I borrowed it, so I can pay it back! You don't have to worry about this!!"
"Second brother, don't forget that all the money you earn has to be handed over!" Shi Li curled her lips, speaking plainly.
"What?! I can't afford to see a doctor for my daughter with the money I earn? As a father, I have to watch my daughter die of illness? If that's the case, am I still worthy of being a father? What do I still earn this money for? What kind of fish will I catch in the future? What kind of hunting will I be hunting? Why don’t I just sit at home and starve to death with my daughter-in-law!!” The honest man finally broke out, and Li Shi, the outcropping bird, became a punching bag.
Mrs. Li quit: "I didn't get any of the money you earned, why are you shouting at me?"
"Okay, just say one more thing, no one will treat you as a dumb!!" Seeing that his second brother was really angry, Yu Dashan hurried up and dragged his mother-in-law back to the east room.
Yu Hai cast his sad eyes on his father, Yu's head, and said in a voice like weeping blood: "Father, Cao'er is your granddaughter and the blood of the Yu family. Don't you have the heart to just look at her like this..."
Old Yu sighed deeply, and said: "I'll go to your uncle's house to borrow some money, and after you hunt the prey, you will return it to him..."
Before he finished speaking, the door of the back room opened with a bang, Zhang's face was drawn to the old man, his fierce hanging eyes were wide open, and he yelled at the old man:
"He can fish and hunt, and his face is much wider than this old face, so you still need to borrow it? The price is high this winter, and there is no income. If you continue to eat like this, won't your family be poor? Have breakfast later. It's thin, and the pancakes are rationed for dinner."
After finishing speaking, he slammed the door shut again, causing the ashes on the beams of the house to fall down.
The daughter's death is uncertain, but the child's grandmother only cares about how to save money. Yu Hai looked at the house disheartened, carried the child out of the door, and hurriedly walked towards the uncle's house.
Yu Hai's uncle, Yu Lichun, has two huge dogs at home, and they are good at pulling the sledge when it snows. The snow was heavy two days ago, and if he had to walk to the town with the child in his arms, he would not be able to reach the town for most of the day. When he came to the door this time, he not only wanted to borrow money, but also borrowed the sledge.
With a dull expression, Yu Hai knocked on the door of the uncle's house, and it was Xiaocao's third uncle who opened the door.
Yu Jiang looked at his cousin in surprise, and when his eyes touched the little figure in his arms, his voice changed immediately: "What's the matter? Xiaocao is sick again? Brother, brother... Hurry up and put the sledge on. I need to use it!!"
There are two sons and three daughters in Yu Lichun's family. The eldest is five years older than Yu Hai, and the second is younger than Yu Hai. Yu Hai is the second eldest, so he is called the second elder brother.
Yu Lichun's family was all at home, Maodong, and they all hurried out of the house when they heard their youngest son yelling so loudly. Yu Lichun didn't even have time to put on the padded jacket, so he walked over quickly to check Xiaocao's condition.
Yu Hai didn't say a word of nonsense, and directly stated the purpose of visiting. Without further ado, Yu Lichun said to Yujiang's mother, Sun, who could not be refuted: "How much money do you have at home? Give it to Dahai."
The old lady was not vague at all, went into the room and took out a gray cloth bag, without even opening it, she stuffed it into Yu Hai's arms, and said: "Take it all, it's important to see the child!"
The eldest daughter-in-law Yuxi moved her mouth and muttered in a low voice: "The money is all given to Hai Hai, what shall we eat for the New Year? The children are waiting for the New Year to eat white noodles!"
Boss Yu, who had set up the sledge, heard his daughter-in-law muttering in a low voice, glared at her, and said, "Is food more important, or human life more important?"
The eldest daughter-in-law was silent, but she was slandering in her heart: the family's father and mother have much more money than their own, so it's their turn to pay for the little girl's medical treatment across the room? That aunt of hers is really a pickpocket!
Yu Hai has always been grateful to his uncle. When his mother just passed away, his uncle and uncle took good care of him and his sister. If it wasn't for his uncle's support, he wouldn't know when he would be able to marry a wife.
Yu Hai bowed deeply to his uncle's family, without saying anything else, took the cloth bag containing the money, got on the sledge, and galloped towards the entrance of the village.
Not long after leaving the entrance of the village, Xiaocao, who had been listening to the movement with her ears pricked up, pretended to have just woken up, and called "Daddy" to Yu Hai who was hugging her tightly.
Finally, there was a trace of expression on Yu Hai's face. He smiled, and asked softly to the precious girl who was wrapped into a ball: "Cao'er, are you awake? Tell Dad, what's wrong?"
Yu Xiaocao struggled to sit up, shook her head vigorously, and said, "I don't feel any discomfort. Dad, don't worry. I was scared by the milk just now, so I passed away. It's fine now, let's go back !"
"It's better to go to the town and have the doctor take a look, so as not to cause the root cause of the disease." Yu Hai touched his daughter's face and insisted on taking her to see a doctor.
For Yu Hai's stubbornness, Yu Xiaocao was moved and helpless, she continued to persuade her father: "Father! I'm really fine! How can I be considered half a doctor, how can I still not know my body?"
While controlling the sledge, Yu Hai said perfunctorily: "Father knows what we Xiaocao is capable of. However, the ancients said: Healers don't heal themselves. Let the doctors of Tongrentang see it, so that father can rest assured."
Yu Xiaocao was helpless, and came up with a compromise: "Father, why don't we do this! Let's go to the mountain and go up and down a few traps, maybe we can trap some prey. In this way, I think the doctor's money is also there." .It’s not a good sign for those who owe money during Chinese New Year.”
Yu Hai saw that his daughter's face was flushed, and her speech was quite energetic. Seeing that my daughter insisted again and again, she compromised. He yelled at the two dogs to turn around and head towards the forest.
The snow on the avenue has been trampled hard by pedestrians and horses in the past two days. The mountains and forests are no worse than the avenues. The snow is soft and knee-deep, and two dogs can only show their heads when they go in. It is extremely difficult to walk.
Yu Hai simply unloaded the sledge from the dog, and dragged his daughter into the mountain by himself. He was worried about leaving his daughter alone on the cold mountain road.
When the snow is heavy and the sun is clear, many hungry small animals in the mountains and forests come out to look for food. After walking a few steps, I saw a pheasant, flapping its wings, flying not far from them.
Yu Hai said with some regret: "It's a pity that I didn't bring the hunting tools here."
"It's okay, Dad! Go to the left, there's the rope that Brother Han and I hid for the sling." Yu Xiaocao sat on the sledge, feeling quite fresh, touching things here and there, and making a snowball from time to time. Looking at the branches, watching the snow on the branches fall one after another, giggling non-stop.
Seeing that his daughter was in good spirits, Yu Hai finally let go of half of his worry. After a while, the father and father found the rope. Yu Hai broke some dead branches and put down a dozen or twenty nooses, big and small, before he stopped.
Yu Xiaocao kept making small movements behind, either sprinkle some spirit stone water on the snow beside the noose, or pull a handful of dead grass and dip it in spirit stone water and place it around the noose. Since freeing up two bottles of Lingshi water, Yu Xiaocao has always carried a bottle with her just in case. In order to prevent animal riots in the mountains, Xiaocao desperately diluted the spirit stone liquid with snow water before daring to spill it.
It has been more than an hour since a loop of noose was finished. After all, Yu Hai is an experienced hunter, and he is much more skillful in setting the noose than her, and he specializes in picking the paths of animals. After finishing the last noose and returning the same way, I found that many nooses had already been harvested.
"Wow! Horned chicken! Partridge!! And blue back!!" Yu Xiaocao screamed excitedly. Fresh mountain birds should be worth a lot of money after such a heavy snowfall.
Yu Hai tied these small prey with ropes and put them on the sledge. Then a few more hares were harvested.
"Father! Look, what's that?? Roe deer?" Yu Xiaocao saw from a distance that the few big ropes they put down were put on, and they also got something. It looks a bit like my little one.
Yu Hai took two steps at a time, and rushed towards the desperately struggling prey, knocking it down in the snow all at once, and tied the four legs with ropes.
"Haha! The harvest is really good today, and you can even hunt deer at the edge of the forest! Girl, this is not a roe deer, it is an adult male deer. Deer blood and venison are good things. The rich people in the town, it is best to use this One bite!" Yu Hai finally showed a smile in his eyes, this deer weighs more than a hundred catties at least, if he sells it, he won't have to pay for his daughter's medical treatment.
When Yu Hai and his daughter came out of the forest, the sledge was already full of prey. After re-fitting the sledge, the father and daughter took the sledge pulled by dogs and headed all the way to Tanggu Town.
It was already noon when we arrived at the gate of Tanggu Town. The father and daughter deposited the sledge in a family not far from the city gate, and gave a pheasant as a reward.
After the heavy snowfall, the price of goods has been rising steadily. Such a fat pheasant cannot be bought for one or two hundred yuan each. The family was so happy that they promised to take good care of the two dogs pulling the sledge.
"Huh? Isn't this Brother Haihai! Come to deliver our prey to Fulinmen? Come on, hurry up! Please come inside!!" The shopkeeper of Fulinmen saw Yu Hai's father and daughter sharply, especially Yu Hai's shoulders. His prey, who has always been arrogant, couldn't help but greet him enthusiastically.
Yu Hai was very uncomfortable with his hospitality. He often sent prey to the town, so Yu Hai naturally knew very well what kind of person Liu shopkeeper of Fulinmen was. This man is very powerful, he looks down on the poor, and he keeps pressing down on his prey.
The Zhenxiu Restaurant's business was booming, and the amount of wild game required increased accordingly, so Yu Hai seldom dealt with Fulinmen. Today, shopkeeper Liu is so crazy that he is worthy of his brother.
Yu Xiaocao, who was carrying a few small prey, had a bad impression of Shopkeeper Liu. In addition to the previous verbal agreement with Young Master Wednesday that those who have prey will be given priority to supply Zhenxiulou, naturally they don't want to deal with Fulinmen, who is not a good businessman.