Xu Lian heard the conversation between Xu Ning and Tao Yunchuan while cooking in the kitchen just now, and knew that Xu Ning was injured.
"Sister, it's okay, it's just some skin trauma."
Facing Xu Lian's concern, Xu Ning responded.
Seeing this blood-related sister, Xu Ning tried to keep calm.
Xu Lian was worried, and stepped forward to take a closer look.
"It's fine." Xu Lian looked at it for a long time, and when she saw that there was nothing serious, she felt relieved, but there was still some distress in her eyes, "Go and change your clothes, the meal is ready."
"Got it, let's go."
Xu Ning glanced at Xu Lian and Tao Yunchuan again, then turned and went to his room.
The simple conversation just now made Xu Ning feel a little stressed.
Looking at the back of Xu Ning who turned around, Tao Yunchuan sighed suddenly.
He looked at his wife Xu Lian with a lonely expression: "Blame me for being incompetent. You have suffered a lot by following me. Xu Ning is about to get married, so you have to turn around and let you support this family with me..."
"do not talk like that."
Xu Lian looked at her husband: "If you hadn't married me back then, Xu Ning and I might have died on the road of wandering. Don't say such depressing words, life will be better in the future."
Xu Lian held Tao Yunchuan's hand.
"Um… "
Faced with his wife's encouragement, Tao Yunchuan nodded silently.
…
Xu Ning returned to his room.
I wanted to adjust my mood, but as soon as I opened the door, Xu Ning saw a girl with braids sitting on her bed, holding two wooden toys in her hands, playing with them, and muttering to herself.
Hearing the sound of pushing the door, the girl turned her face.
At this time, the sun was about to set and the house was dark, but the girl's big eyes were bright.
Seeing Xu Ning, the girl had a smile on her face.
"Uncle!"
Uncle
Xu Ning heard it and remembered it instantly.
The girl in front of her is the daughter of her sister Xu Lian and her brother-in-law Tao Yunchuan, and also her niece, Tao Tao.
Seeing Xu Ning coming in, Tao Tao put down the toy in her hand and jumped off the bed.
"Uncle, why did you come back?"
Tao Tao raised her head and stared at Xu Ning.
"I… "
Facing Tao Tao, Xu Ning hadn't figured out how to deal with it for a while.
"what?"
Tao Tao suddenly asked a question, she looked at the holes and blood stains on Xu Ning's pants, her little brows tightened.
"Uncle, why is your leg broken?"
While talking, Tao Tao moved her mouth to Xu Ning's wound.
She puffed her cheeks and blew hard on Xu Ning's wound.
"Peach, what are you doing?"
Xu Ning asked subconsciously.
"Does it still hurt?"
Tao Tao looked up at Xu Ning again.
Xu Ning just remembered that after Tao Tao fell, if her skin was broken, her sister Xu Lian would blow her wound like this, using the cool wind from her mouth to relieve the pain of the injury.
Thinking of this, Xu Ning suddenly smiled knowingly.
He touched Tao Tao's head: "It doesn't hurt anymore."
"It doesn't hurt anymore?"
Tao Tao seemed a little unbelievable.
"It really doesn't hurt anymore."
Xu Ning tugged at Tao Tao's braid: "You go to eat first, and I'll go there after I change my clothes."
Tao Tao pushed Xu Ning's hand away: "Then I'll go out first."
But as soon as she left, Tao Tao turned around and came back, and took out a few green dates from her two pockets.
Tao Tao's hands are small, and she can't hold three or four in one hand.
"Uncle, here it is for you."
Tao Tao stuffed the green dates into Xu Ning's hands.
Xu Ning took it: "You were waiting for me in the room just to give me this date?"
"Yup."
Tao Tao nodded.
She didn't stop, and went out with her pigtails.
Xu Ning looked at the short figure, and then looked down at the green jujube in his hand.
"This kid..."
There was a smile on the corner of Xu Ning's mouth that he didn't even notice.
He stuffed a jujube into his mouth and chewed.
"Hiss..."
Xu Ning took a slight breath of air.
Really sour.
"Maybe everything is fate..."
Looking at the green jujube left in his hand, Xu Ning thought deeply.
After a long time, he raised his head, the sky was already dark.
Unconsciously, the gap with this world seems to be melting away little by little.
…
Xu Ning changed his clothes, roughly wiped the wound with the spare ointment in the room, and then went back to the main house for dinner.
The dining table was a square table with a plate of light vegetables, a plate of pickles, four bowls of porridge, and a piece of bread.
"The standard of living at home is still a bit worse..."
Xu Ning thought to himself.
Although Taojiazhuang is a powerful ethnic group in Kangyun County, his brother-in-law Tao Yunchuan has limited mobility, and he and his sister have no outstanding skills, so life has been very difficult.
The income of the whole family is about ten taels of silver a month.
Xu Ning converted from his memory, the purchasing power of one tael of silver in this world is equivalent to 200 yuan in his previous life.
Thinking of this, Xu Ning suddenly thought of the sapphire grass from before.
That's worth five hundred taels of silver.
It is precisely because of the high value that the predecessor risked his life to pick it.
But such a precious sapphire grass was absorbed by him as energy, Xu Ning felt guilty for a moment.
"Sit down."
After Xu Ning took his seat, Xu Lian tore the dough.
Among them, she and her brother-in-law Tao Yunchuan got a big piece, while Xu Lian and Tao Tao both got a small piece.
At the dinner table, the family did not communicate much.
Soon after dinner, Xu Ning returned to his room with the excuse of being tired.
At this time the night rose, and the house was dark.
Xu Ning lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling.
After a meal, he had a more intuitive understanding of the family's circumstances.
Barely full.
This is the current state of the family.
The more this happened, the more guilty Xu Ning felt about absorbing the green jade grass worth five hundred taels of silver.
"Got to find a way to make money..."
Xu Ning's brain was trying to think.
He has to turn the force he obtained by consuming high value into real help to the family.
…
Early the next morning.
Xu Ning got up a bit late.
When he woke up, Tao Yunchuan and Xu Lian had already gone out.
Tao Yunchuan worked at the rice shop in the village, while Xu Lian mended clothes for the tailor.
Tao Tao was still sound asleep.
Xu Ning didn't wake her up, and when Tao Tao woke up naturally, she went to play with her friends and came back to eat at noon.
Because it is in Zhuangzi, there is no need to worry too much about Tao Tao's safety.
After getting up, Xu Ning simply washed up, stuffed his mouth with the leftover pancakes from last night, and filled his stomach slightly.
He sorted the medicinal materials he picked from the mountain yesterday and the medicinal materials he picked before, put them together in a basket, and then went out to sell them.
Picking and selling herbs, this is what Xu Ning has been doing all along.
After leaving the house, Xu Ning walked towards the herbal medicine shop in the village.
"Guo Ye."
Walking into the herbal medicine store, Xu Ning saw a burly young man.
His skin is dark, his eyes are small, and he has a beard at the corners of his mouth, which makes him look a bit old-fashioned.
"Here we come, Xu Ning!"
When the young man named Guo Ye saw Xu Ning, he smiled enthusiastically.
If you want to say which young man has the closest relationship with him in Taojiazhuang, it must be this Guo Ye.
Guo Ye's experience is similar to Xu Ning's. Having lost his parents, he married his aunt to Taojiazhuang when he was young, and he also has a foreign surname.
But Guo Ye's situation is much better than Xu Ning's.
His aunt married Tao Yungang, a well-known medicine merchant in Taojiazhuang. His business scope covers not only nearby Zhuangzi and villages, but also Kangyun County, and his family is very wealthy.
Tao Yungang usually collects medicinal materials to discuss business, and Guo Ye manages the medicinal materials shop for him in the village.
In the past, Xu Ning always sold the picked herbs here, and Guo Ye never lowered the price.
"This is the medicinal material picked in the past few days."
Xu Ning put the basket in front of the counter, and took out the herbs inside.
He has already gathered the herbs and classified them into several bundles.
"I'll name it."
Guo Ye's movements are very skilled.
"A total of three taels of silver."
Guo Ye calculated the price.
"Three taels?"
Xu Ning was a little surprised.
In memory, these herbs are worth one or two halves at most.
"So many, you didn't take care of me specially, did you?"
Xu Ning asked.
"No." Guo Ye replied, "The recycling price of cool dry grass has increased. It used to be three taels per catty, but now it is six taels per catty."
As he spoke, Guo Ye took a bundle of cool dry grass in his hand.
The surface is withered and yellow, and the grass blades are slender, looking like withered weeds.
But put it in the nose and smell it, but there is a faint smoky fragrance.
"Six taels of cool dry grass?"
When Xu Ning heard the price, his heart skipped a beat.
He suddenly thought of a memory from his predecessor.
A month ago, the predecessor accidentally turned to a certain place in Yunze Mountain. On the further hillside, he found a large piece of dry grass growing there.
It's just that the place is too dangerous, too close to the inner circle of Yunze Mountain. In the inner circle, there are many wild animals, as well as poisonous insects and weeds. There is a lot of risk, so the predecessor still didn't dare to pick it after hesitating.
But right now, his own strength is increasing, and the price of Liangkucao just happened to increase, so maybe he can give it a try.