The main thing is that I was scared.
Even on the way back, she repeatedly explained why she did that in the Guyin Temple Villa, but the old man still looked worried.
Su Qiao had no choice.
"Are you really alright?"
The old lady looked at the old man with a tired face and was a little unconvinced.
The others following behind also felt that something must have happened.
Su Qiao helped the old man onto the kang. "It's nothing. The gentleman just asked Grandpa to come over and ask about the mine. He was quite polite to Grandpa."
Old Master Su returned to his room and lay down on the familiar kang. Only then did he feel completely recovered.
He waved his hand and said, "It's okay, all of you go down and do whatever you need to do!"
"I'm glad you're okay."
The old man said it was okay, and everyone felt relieved.
The old lady was still a little worried. She came up to him and gently advised, "Old man, why don't you take another day off tomorrow and go harvest the wheat the day after tomorrow?"
Su Qiao's heart moved: "Master, I have to go to the town to sell things tomorrow, and my second brother has also made a lot of baskets. How about waiting for another day?"
"All right then!"
The old man didn't look very energetic. The injuries he suffered in the mine had not yet fully healed. After today's scare, he really couldn't hold on.
Su Qiao looked at the old man apologetically, left the old lady to take care of him, and turned to leave the upper room.
"Dani, where did you get so many bamboo shoots?"
Liu was hanging the bamboo shoots blanched in hot water on bamboo poles one by one, with a look of joy at the harvest on her face.
"It's on the mountain in the north. I guess there are fewer people going there, so I got a bargain."
Liu was a little moved: "Anything else?"
"There are still some small ones. They will grow bigger in a few days before we can pick them."
Hearing that there was more, Liu was even happier: "Then when you pick it, call Second Aunt and I will help you carry it."
"Sure."
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After a day of work, the tooth powder was finally ready after adding six or seven kinds of herbs such as honeysuckle and lily to the basis of Panax notoginseng, Angelica dahurica, mint and salt.
The next morning, as soon as it was light, Su Qiao picked up a basket and took Xiao Haozi, who had been clamoring to go the day before, to the town, following her second brother Su Yihe, who was carrying a basket and a winnowing basket.
After walking more than ten miles of mountain roads and spending an hour and a half, the three finally arrived in the town.
There were already quite a lot of people in the town at this time.
The shops along the street have already opened and the people setting up stalls in the small market have already occupied their spots.
Especially some vegetable and grocery vendors, they come especially early.
After helping his second brother Su Yihe put the basket on the stall, Su Qiao went to a porcelain shop not far away.
She used the one hundred coins she had saved from her mother to buy a dozen ordinary small porcelain bottles, carefully poured the tooth powder from the bamboo tube into them and plugged the openings.
Su Yihe squatted in front of the stall, and from time to time, he looked at the small stall in front of Su Qiao.
Su Qiao found the hesitant look a bit funny.
She knew that this was because she felt she had sold the product too expensively and felt guilty.
Su Yihe asked tentatively: "Dani, how about... how about we lower the price a little bit?"
Su Qiao looked at him in embarrassment: "Second brother, we use very precious medicinal materials. We don't make much money to begin with. If we make it any cheaper, we will lose money."
"Oh." Su Yihe scratched his head, and became conflicted as he was about to say something.
On the one hand, he felt that the price was too high and it felt a bit like cheating to sell it to others, but on the other hand, he felt that Dani was right, those medicinal herbs were very precious and were awarded by the great man above.