The father and daughter took the medicine, thanked Dr. Sun several times, and went outside the city to get the sledge. Xiaocao bought a few meat buns from the side of the road, fed the two strenuous dogs well, and added some Lingshi water to the water they drank.
The two dogs immediately came alive, pulling the sledge and galloping on the way back. Even the man driving the horse-drawn sledge marveled at the speed and strength of the two dogs, which his family's horses could not keep up with.
For more than fifty miles, two brave dogs can run in less than an hour. Before entering the village, the father and daughter went to the place where they set up their traps, and Xiaocao saw that most of the traps had harvested without any surprise.
Two big traps, one was destroyed, and the other trapped a fat roe deer. Maybe it's been a long time, the roe deer has been dead for a long time, and it's frozen hard. Most of the other small traps caught hares, pheasants, and even caught a badger!
Xiaocao didn't recognize the badger and poked it curiously. Yu Hai finally had a smile on his face again: "The fur of the badger is warm. When I finish it, I will ask your mother to make you a woolen vest. The meat of the badger is delicious and nourishing. Let's keep it for ourselves." Eat. You keep the badger seed oil, when Doctor You comes, he can prepare some medicine for scalds and burns."
"This badger weighs more than 20 catties at least, and can be sold for hundreds of copper coins. Can my grandma agree to keep it for myself?" Yu Xiaocao said casually without any hope.
"My father and I hunted the badgers, and my father said I would keep them for my family to eat!" Yu Hai's tone was more resolute and certain than before.
There are indeed a lot of prey caught, and they add up to two to three hundred catties. Yu Hai piled the prey on the sledge, and walked beside him, asking his daughter if she was cold or hungry from time to time.
Yu Xiaocao, who was wrapped into a huge cotton ball, could not help sighing in her heart except for her nostrils and eyes exposed: My father really has nothing to say to his daughter!
The father and daughter first went to Yu Hai's uncle's house and returned the sledge. On the way, Xiaocao has already convinced her father not to return the borrowed money for the time being. With the debt, there will be a reason not to turn in the prey after selling it. It's time to have a small treasury at home!
After this time, Yu Hai also clearly realized the importance of having savings in hand. The child's mother has been in poor health since she gave birth to the stone, and she coughed up blood several times. Although the youngest daughter said nothing serious this time, he was still worried. He doesn't have a single coin in his hand, if his wife and children suffer from illness or disaster again, is he, a gentleman, going to watch them suffer
Therefore, when the little girl put away the fifty taels of silver, he didn't say a word. When the little girl proposed not to repay the debt temporarily, he agreed without hesitation. In the future, he will still work hard and work hard for this family. But he will no longer ignore Xiaojia and be blind and filial!
"Dahai, hurry up and take the child into the house to warm up on the kang. It's so cold, is it froze? How is Xiaocao? You don't look energetic!" Yu Lichun bent down and hugged Xiaocao together with the quilt, and quickly Step into the house.
The warm breath of the house came oncoming, and Xiaocao was stuffed into the quilt on the heating kang before he had time to see the furnishings in the house. The warm quilt is so comfortable that it makes people drowsy.
"What does the doctor say?" Xiaocao's third uncle, Yu Jiang, brought two steaming bowls of ginger soup, handed a bowl to the second brother, and carefully coaxed the little niece to drink ginger soup.
Yujia's ginger soup is made only from fresh ginger. It has a strong ginger flavor and is spicy to the throat. Yu Xiaocao had a bitter face, trying to escape the torture of drinking ginger soup, but Uncle Santang pinched his mouth and poured it down. Although the body is hot, the mouth and throat are uncomfortable.
Yu Hai drank the ginger soup in a fit of anger, looked at his daughter's bitter expression, and smiled unscrupulously: "Dr. Sun from Tong Ren Tang showed it to me and prescribed some medicines. It's nothing serious!"
Of course he would not say that the child is all right. Yu Hai is familiar with Zhang's nature - money is her lifeblood! Don't let her bleed, she will never know the pain. When she wants to do something to her daughter in the future, she has to think about it!
Mrs. Sun took a few deliciously roasted sweet potatoes, peeled them and stuffed them into Xiaocao's hands: "Eat it, and change the taste in your mouth! It's fine, this child has suffered a lot these years! "
"Thank you, grandma!" Xiaocao has a special liking for roasted sweet potatoes, but unfortunately at home, the old hag of the Zhang family is in charge, so she rarely has the opportunity to eat them. The fragrant and sweet roasted sweet potato instantly heals the heart hurt by ginger soup.
Yu Hai chatted with his uncle and brothers for a while, and saw his little daughter rubbing her eyes and starting to doze off after eating roasted sweet potatoes, so she got up and said, "Uncle, I will definitely pay back your money years ago. Your kindness, nephew Always in my heart."
Yu Lichun hurriedly said: "My family, what are you talking about? Don't blame your father, he has always been a man who doesn't handle money, your stepmother... well, don't mention it! Don't let the money matter go In my heart. Our family is not in a hurry to use it!"
Yu Hai put on his thick leather jacket for his daughter. The large leather jacket was almost dragged to the ground, and Xiaocao stumbled behind her father with a dazed look. Seeing that nothing was wrong, Yu Jiang picked up the little guy and prepared to send the two of them back.
Yu Hai took out a fat rabbit and a pheasant from a pile of prey, and said to his uncle, "Before going to the town, I went to the mountains and set up a few traps. Maybe it's hard to find food in the heavy snow, but I got the traps." A lot of prey. This rabbit and pheasant, let the aunt pack it out and freeze it, and add a dish during the Chinese New Year."
Yu Lichun is not willing to take it: "The sea is freezing, and it is not easy for you to hunt. After drinking the little herb, you may have to catch it. You should take it back and go to the town tomorrow to exchange it for silver..."
"Uncle, if you don't accept it, you will look down on my nephew! If you didn't lend me the money today, I really don't know what to do... This is my nephew's respect for you, please accept it!" Yu Hai The attitude is very firm.
Yu Lichun also knew that this nephew had always been stubborn, and if he didn't accept him, he might be impatient.
It was dusk when I came out of my uncle's house. Yu Hai stepped on the frozen snow and headed towards his home, but his heart was gradually covered by ice.
The closed door, the cold pot and stove... Hearing the sound, only the door of Westinghouse opened eagerly, and his wife and children rushed up to meet him. He was so stupid before, he would only make his wife and children endure it again and again, but it dragged down his wife's body, and his daughter almost died.
The door of the main room was still tightly closed, and knocking and whispering sounds could be faintly heard from inside. The window of the east room was quietly opened a crack. The inner pair of eyes met his line of sight, then suddenly retracted. The sound of closing the window was especially clear in the quiet evening.
Yu Jiang frowned slightly, he put the grass that was sleeping and kowtowed on the kang in the west room, and left. Grandma is not dear, isn't grandpa either? The second uncle has been doing things more and more out of order in the past two years!
This time Yu Jiang was wrong to blame Old Yu. After dinner, Lao Yu saw that his son and granddaughter hadn't come back yet, so he wandered out wearing his clothes, wanting to greet him. However, with the father and two who were collecting prey in the mountains, they missed it.
While Yu Hai was decocting medicine under the eaves, old Yutou came in from outside. As soon as he entered the door, he rushed to the west room, went in and looked at Xiaocao who was asleep, asked a few words of concern, and said: "You two haven't eaten yet, right? Ask your wife to roll a bowl of noodles for you, Give Xiaocao a poached egg."
Yu Hai glanced at the main room, shook his head and said, "I don't have much flour at home, so I'd better save it for Chinese New Year to make dumplings. I got a badger today, and I'll pack it up and cook a bowl of broth."
Seeing his son's handling of the prey, Old Yu didn't use the tone of consulting any more. He paused for a while before continuing: "That's good! Badger meat is for people, give the children more to eat."
After finishing speaking, he put his hands behind his back and walked slowly towards the main room. Old Yu was sensitively aware of the subtle changes in his son, and he was full of emotion—it seems that this time, he really broke his son's heart!
Yu Xiaocao was awakened by the delicious smell of meat. The badger meat is already delicious, and with Liu's craftsmanship, the broth cooked out of it will almost draw out the gluttons of people.
The whole family sat around on the kang and enjoyed the delicious broth. Yu Hai looked at the meat in the bowl, and after a moment of silence, he said, "I'll go and deliver two bowls to the main house!"
Liu's action of drinking the soup stopped for a moment, and continued to drink the soup with her head bowed, without saying anything. Xiao Shitou pursed his lips, and said reluctantly: "Second sister is sick, and even my grandma doesn't want to pay for it. Why are you still giving her broth!"
Xiaocao chewed and swallowed the meat in her mouth, pinched the little guy's face, and said: "After all, she is the elder of the family. She is not benevolent, but we have to be unfilial."
Yu Hai glanced at the little girl and nodded inwardly. Indeed, the word "filial piety" is greater than the sky. If the juniors eat meat and don't send it to the elders, the reputation of their family will be ruined. Besides, there is a Mrs. Li who likes to gossip at home. Get her a pigtail, don't preach it to the sky!
When Yu Hai came out of the kitchen with broth, he saw Mrs. Li at the door of the east room, stretching her neck and looking towards the kitchen. Her gluttonous son shouted behind her: "Broth! I want broth! Why can Westinghouse steal it and not give it to us?"
Yu Dashan dragged the two of them back by force, and was about to close the door when he saw Yu Hai with a naive smile on his face: "Dahai, your nephew is just used by his mother. Don't worry about it..."
"There is still broth in the kitchen, I want to drink it myself." Yu Hai carried the broth into the main room.
Mrs. Zhang looked over with sideways eyes, with a sarcastic expression on her face: "Oh! My old lady is not so lucky, her life is not good, and she still eats soup and meat, so she is not afraid of losing her life!"
Old Yu glared at her, and said, "Don't say anything! I agreed to kill the badgers. The second daughter-in-law and Xiaocao are not in good health, so they should make up for it. What's the life of the meat I hunted?" If you don’t eat it, I’ll eat it all!”