Gu Ye picked up the grain bag and brought it to Widow Li's hand, saying, "Aunt Li, my grandfather said that he would organize the villagers to go out to buy grain in a few days. These 20 catties of grain will be used by you and Sister Xiuhong for five days. Wages. After the food is bought, if you still want it, just pay us the market price. Aunt Li, think about Sister Xiuhong and Brother Xiaohai!"
Hearing what she said, Widow Li stopped pushing and refusing. She looked at her thin-faced daughter, and thought about her son who was obviously hungry, but smiled and comforted her, saying that she was not hungry. Tears streamed down her face.
Widow Li wiped her tears with her sleeve and confirmed again and again, "Ye'er, is your family's food really enough?"
"Enough!" Gu Ye saw that Aunt Li had accepted the food, and said, "Aunt Li, don't save too much. Only when you are full will you have the strength to make money. There will be food!"
Aunt Li nodded and said a few words of thanks. Although Li Xiuhong didn't speak again, her eyes flashed with gratitude.
After sending Aunt Li and his wife back to their room, Gu Ye saw through the wind and snow that Grandpa came back from outside. When I asked, I found out that he went to the village chief's house. According to statistics, nearly half of the people in the village are facing food shortages.
Gu Xiao told the village chief about his plan to go skiing to the town to buy food. The village chief immediately selected a few young and strong young men with good skiing skills to go to the town with Gu Xiao tomorrow to buy food.
It's freezing cold, and it's not a joke to be frozen in the wind and snow for a whole day. Gu Ye lay on the kang, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. Although there was a curtain between her and Aunt Yan, they were on the same kang after all, and she did not dare to enter or leave the space at will. After thinking for a while, she sprayed some potion to induce deep sleep towards the next door of the curtain, and then turned over and entered the space.
In the pile of junk in the space, she searched for a long time before she found a few boxes of 60-degree liquor. It was a famous brand in a previous life, and a bottle sold for thousands. At the beginning of the turbulent times, she was like a little squirrel in the winter. When she saw something useful, she pulled it into the space. This liquor was collected in a high-end hotel wholesale store at that time.
After thinking for a while, she entered her mobile laboratory, prepared a potion to resist the cold, and added it to the liquor. Then put these medicinal wines into water bags one by one. After doing this, she came out of the space and fell asleep peacefully.
When he woke up, it was already bright, and Gu Ye was startled, so he quickly put on his clothes, not even bothering to put on the cloak, so he ran outside. Gu Ming chased after her, shouting loudly, "Sister, what are you doing? Put on your cloak!"
"Brother, grandfather, have they left? You really are, why didn't you wake me up?" Gu Ye took a bulging cloth bag as cover, quickly put on his skis, and slid toward the village entrance down the mountain.
Gu Ming didn't stop her, his snowboard was taken by grandpa for spare, and he stomped his feet in a hurry: "Sister, come back! Grandpa won't allow you to go to town!"
The cold north wind blew on his face like a knife. Snow pounced towards her face, so that she could barely open her eyes. Traveling in this kind of weather is a terrible thing. She must deliver the medicinal wine to her grandfather.
When they arrived at the entrance of the village, Gu Xiao and seven or eight villagers were already ready to go. In Gu Xiao's basket, he also carried more than 100 kilograms of medicinal materials that his granddaughter had just prepared.
"Grandpa!" Gu Ye made a beautiful emergency stop in front of grandpa. Just as he was about to say something, his nose was itchy and he sneezed heavily.
Gu Xiao helped his granddaughter to wrap the cloak on his body tightly, and pretended to be angry: "What are you doing here? You are a little girl, always wanting to join in the fun. Go back quickly, be careful of catching a cold! What about your brother? I don't mean to be optimistic. is it yours?"
"Grandpa!" Gu Ye interrupted Grandpa's nagging, "Don't be nervous, I'm not pestering you to follow, I'll bring you something good!"
When Gu Xiao heard this, his brows really relaxed a lot. He was really afraid that his granddaughter would act coquettishly and pretend to cry, and that he would not be able to resist and refuse to accept it. Sure enough, the granddaughter is still sensible. He grinned and said with a smile, "What's a good gift for you?"
"The medicinal wine I made can prevent you from getting cold when you drink it. Try it, how does it taste?" Gu Ye's little hand touched the cloth bag and took out a water bag filled with wine.
Although Gu Xiao is not addicted to alcohol, he usually likes to drink a drink, and he has never stopped drinking at home. As for medicinal wine, he drank the tiger bone wine made by his granddaughter.
He happily took the water bag and couldn't wait to take a sip. Immediately, a spicy feeling rushed into the mouth, the faint medicinal smell spread in the mouth, and a warm current spread down the throat all the way through the whole body, the whole body was warm, and it seemed that even the biting cold wind outside could not be detected.
"Good wine! The taste is delicate, the wine is mellow, the aftertaste is long, and the fragrance lasts longer than the Shilixiang offered by the imperial family. Granddaughter, where did you get this good wine?" Gu Xiao couldn't help but drink it again. One bite.
Gu Ye hurriedly grabbed the wine bag, put the stopper on it, and stuffed it into Grandpa's arms, saying, "This is a two-day round trip, don't drink it all at once. When you can't stand the cold anymore, take another sip. As for this wine, I don't know where Master got it from. I still have it at home. If you want to drink it, drink it slowly when you come back from town."
The price of liquor is relatively high, and the villagers in Qingshan Village may not be able to drink a sip all year round, and they can't help swallowing when they smell the aroma of the wine. One of the uncles of Gu Yeben's family, Gu, licked his face and approached, and asked, "Little Leaf, do you have any more? Give your uncle a taste!"
Gu Ye pulled out a water bag from the cloth bag, stuffed it into his hand, and said, "All! Uncle, this is yours"
The other villagers originally wanted to make fun of the Gu family boy, but when they heard "all of them", they hurried over, for fear that there would be insufficient numbers and they would be missed. Gu Ye divided the wine bag. At this time, Gu Jihou hurriedly took a big sip. Gu, who has only drank rice wine, has never tasted such a strong white wine, the strong taste irritates his throat. He wanted to cough, but was reluctant to drink the wine in his mouth, so he swallowed it hard, choking his tears, and his face suddenly turned red like a monkey's butt.
"Haha! Gu, look at you like a bear! A child who has never drunk, how pitiful!" A middle-aged bearded uncle patted Gu on the shoulder and made fun of him. After the others drank it, they were no better than Gu, coughing, blushing, and repeatedly praising "good wine!".
In ancient times, it was mostly rice wine, or low-alcohol liquor, like 60-proof spirits, almost none. Fortunately, the liquid inside has neutralized some of the alcohol, otherwise, if you take a big gulp, you will have to lie down a few times!
"It's amazing, it's not cold anymore! My whole body is steaming out!!" Gu looked surprised, but in the cold wind, his forehead was sweating. It was the first time he had experienced such a strange thing.
"Of course, this is our village's little genius doctor, a medicinal wine specially prepared for us, to prevent cold and resist cold, isn't it amazing?" The name of Gu Ye's "little genius doctor" has already spread in the village, and they all say that she is a famous teacher and a master apprentice!
"We're off!" The big guy carefully put the wine bag close to his body, and the little genius doctor was really attentive. He even warmed the wine for everyone and put it in, and brought it over to be warm. How did they know that Gu Ye was using a cloth bag as a cover and just took it out of the space.
"Village Chief, Little Ye Ye, you all go back!" Gu Xiao wrapped his face, waved at them, and slid out first. Not to be outdone, the others rushed out like a game. That sturdy body and skilled movements are almost comparable to those of professional skiers. It seems that the people of Qingshan Village who lack entertainment activities, have a lot of skiing in the snow!
It wasn't until their figures were no longer visible in the wind and snow that Gu Ye retracted his gaze. When she saw the village chief grandfather beside her, he was hesitant to say anything to her, and then she said: "Village chief grandpa, I have prepared an extra bag of medicinal wine, you can take it back and drink it slowly."
"Okay, okay!" The old village chief smiled with a wrinkled face, "Little Leaf has a heart!"
"Grandpa, the village chief, I'm going to see the baby!" Gu Ye carried the skis and supported the old village chief, walking towards the village chief's house. The third daughter-in-law of the village chief, the wound has been stitched and recovered well. Although the baby was born a dozen days prematurely, she is healthy. The family was very grateful to Gu Ye, especially Li Qiushan, who almost offered her as a savior.
After coming out of the village chief's house, the wind and snow was a little lighter, and Gu Ye prayed silently in his heart that this damn wind and snow day would end soon. Back home, Zhang Lihu carried a wild rabbit and stood in the yard talking to Gu Ming.
Gu Ye saw that although the hare was frozen hard, it was fresh, so he asked curiously, "Brother Lihu, with such a heavy snow, can you still go up the mountain to fight?"
Zhang Lihu smiled and said: "The snow on the mountain can reach a person's waist, how can you fight it? I saw this hare when I was cleaning the snow in our backyard. This guy made a hole in my backyard and got in and gnawed at it. What about the vegetable roots in the vegetable garden! I reckon that your family’s food is almost eaten, so I’ll bring you some more food!”
"Brother Lihu, where is your family? Do you have enough food?" Gu Ye remembered that Zhang's family did not grow much land, and most of the time they bought food to eat, so he asked with concern.
"Enough! We kept a lot of bacon and air-dried things this year. My father and I both like to eat meat, so the food at home is saved, and we can last for more than ten days. By the way, I listened to my father. , Grandpa Gu Wu went to buy food outside the mountain? Alas! It's a pity that I knew it was too late, otherwise I would have followed!" Zhang Lihu looked annoyed.
Gu Ming smiled and said: "My grandfather is doing business, you should go out to play! You don't even think about what it's like to freeze for a day in the wind and snow! I was holding on tight, and my sister followed me too!"
Gu Ye gave him a white look and said, "You think I don't know, you didn't follow because of your poor skiing skills, and you were afraid of dragging your grandpa's back! If I really want to follow, can you stop me? Go to the entrance of the village to deliver wine to grandpa, if you go, you will be gone long ago!"