Chapter 2

Xu Lian heard the conversation between Xu Ning and Tao Yunchuan when she was cooking in the kitchen. She knew that Xu Ning was injured.

"Sister, it's no big deal. It's just some skin injuries."

Facing Xu Lian's concern, Xu Ning responded.

Looking at his own blood sister, Xu Ning tried to keep calm.

Xu Lian was worried. She came forward and had a careful look.

"It's all right." Xu Lian looked at it for a long time. When she saw that there was no big event, she put down her heart, but her eyes were still distressed. "Go and change your clothes, and the meal will be ready."

"I see. I'll go now."

Xu Ning took another look at Xu Lian and Tao Yunchuan, then turned and went to his house.

Just now these simple conversations made Xu Ning feel some pressure.

Looking at Xu Ning's back, Tao Yunchuan suddenly sighed.

He looked at his wife Xu Lian with a lonely expression: "it's strange that I don't have the ability. You've suffered with me. Xu Ning is almost getting married. In turn, he has to let you support this family with me..."

"Don't say that."

Xu Lian looked at her husband: "if you hadn't married me, Xu Ning and I might have died on the road of wandering. Don't say these depressed words, life would be better in the future."

Xu Lian holds Tao Yunchuan's hand.

"Well..."

Facing 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 sheep horn braids sitting on her bed. She was playing with two wooden toys and muttering to herself.

Hearing the sound of pushing the door, the girl turned her face.

At this time, the setting sun was falling and the house was dark, but the girl's big eyes looked very bright.

Seeing Xu Ning, the girl piled up a smile on her face.

"Uncle!"

Uncle?

Xu Ning heard it and remembered it in an instant.

The girl in front of her is the daughter of her sister Xu Lian and her brother-in-law Tao Yunchuan. She is also her niece, Tao Tao.

Tao Tao saw Xu Ning come in, put down his toy and jumped out of bed.

"Uncle, how did you come back?"

Tao Tao looked up at Xu Ning.

"I..."

Facing Tao Tao, Xu Ning hasn't figured out how to deal with it for a while.

"Eh?"

Tao Tao suddenly raised a question. She looked at the holes and blood on Xu Ning's pants and tightened her small eyebrows.

"Uncle, why is your leg broken?"

Tao Tao put his mouth to Xu Ning's wound as he spoke.

She puffed her cheeks and blew hard at 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 remembered that if Tao Tao broke her skin after wrestling, her sister Xu Lian would blow her wound like this and use the cool wind from her mouth to relieve the pain of the injury.

Thinking of this, Xu Ning suddenly smiled.

He touched Tao Tao's head: "it doesn't hurt."

"It really doesn't hurt?"

Tao Tao doesn't seem to believe it.

"It really doesn't hurt."

Xu Ning pulled Tao Tao's pigtail: "you go to dinner first, and I'll go there after I change my clothes."

Tao Tao opened Xu Ning's hand: "then I'll go out first."

But as soon as he left, Tao Tao turned back and took out some green dates from his two clothes pockets.

Tao Tao's hands are small. He can't hold three or four in one hand.

"Here you are, uncle."

Tao Tao stuffed the dates into Xu Ning's hand.

Xu Ning took over: "you waited for me in the house just to give me the date?"

"Yes."

Tao Tao nodded.

She didn't stop either. She left with her pigtails.

Xu Ning looked at the short figure and looked down at the green jujube in his hand.

"The child..."

Xu Ning's mouth wore a smile he didn't even notice.

He stuffed a green jujube into his mouth and chewed it.

"Hiss..."

Xu Ning took a slight breath of air conditioning.

It's so sour.

"Maybe everything is fate..."

Looking at the remaining dates in his hand, Xu Ning mused.

For a long time, he looked up and it was dark.

Unconsciously, the estrangement from the world seems to be melting a little.

……

Xu Ning changed his clothes, roughly wiped the wound with the spare ointment in the room, and then returned to the main house for dinner.

The dining table is a square table with a plate of light vegetables, a plate of pickles, four bowls of porridge and a piece of bread.

"The living standard at home is still worse..."

Xu Ning thought to himself.

Although taojiazhuang is a powerful ethnic group in Kangyun County, his brother-in-law Tao Yunchuan is inconvenient to move, and he and his sister don't have any outstanding skills, so life has been very tight.

The income of the whole family is about ten Liang silver a month.

Xu Ning converted one or two silver coins from his memory, and his purchasing power was equivalent to 200 yuan in his previous life.

Thinking of this, Xu Ning suddenly thought of the previous jade grass.

That's worth 500 liang of silver.

It is precisely because the value is expensive that the predecessor will risk his life to pick.

Such precious jade grass was absorbed into energy by himself, and a trace of guilt flashed through Xu Ning's heart.

"Sit down."

After Xu Ning took his seat, Xu Lian tore the bread open.

Among them, she and her brother-in-law Tao Yunchuan are divided into large pieces, while Xu Lian and Tao Tao are small pieces.

At the dinner table, the family didn't communicate much.

Soon after dinner, Xu Ning went back to his room on the pretext of fatigue.

At this time, the night rose and the house was dark.

Xu Ning lay in bed, staring at the ceiling.

After a meal, he had a more intuitive understanding of the family.

Barely full.

This is the current state of the family.

The more so, Xu Ning felt more guilty about absorbing the jade grass worth 500 Liang silver.

"I have to find a way to make money..."

Xu Ning's brain is trying to think.

He had to turn the force he had spent in exchange for high value into real help to the family.

……

Early next morning.

Xu Ning got up late.

When he woke up, Tao Yunchuan and Xu Lian had gone out.

Tao Yunchuan started at the rice shop in the village, while Xu Lian went to the tailor's shop to mend clothes.

Tao Tao is still sleeping.

Xu Ning didn't wake her up. When Tao Tao woke up naturally, he went to play with his little partner and didn't come back for dinner until noon.

Because it's in Zhuangzi, you don't have to worry too much about the safety of Tao Tao.

After getting up, Xu Ning simply washed, stuffed his mouth with the leftover cakes from last night and slightly filled his stomach.

He classified the herbs he picked from the mountain yesterday and the herbs he picked before, put them together, put them in the basket, and then went out to sell them.

Picking and selling herbs is what Xu Ning has been doing all the time.

After leaving the house, Xu Ning went to the medicine shop in the village.

"Guo Ye."

Entering the medicine shop, Xu Ning saw a strong young man.

He has dark skin, small eyes, a beard at the corners of his mouth and looks a little old.

"Coming, Xu Ning!"

The young man named Guo Ye smiled warmly when he saw Xu Ning.

If there is a young man in taojia village who has the closest relationship with him, it must be Guo Ye.

Guo Ye's experience is similar to that of Xu Ning. When he lost his parents, he married his aunt to taojiazhuang when he was young. He is also a person with a different surname.

However, Guo Ye's situation is much better than Xu Ning.

His aunt married Tao Yungang, a famous medicine merchant in taojiazhuang. His business scope covers Kangyun County in addition to the nearby Zhuangzi and villages. His family is very rich.

Tao Yungang usually collects medicinal materials and talks about business. Guo Ye runs a medicinal shop for him in the village.

Before Xu Ning, he always sold the picked herbs here, and Guo Ye never pressed the price.

"This is the medicine picked in recent days."

Xu Ning put the basket in front of the counter and took out the herbs.

He has gathered the herbs, classified them and tied them into bundles.

"I'll weigh you."

Guo Ye's movements are very skilled.

"Three Liang silver altogether."

Guo Ye calculated the price.

"Three liang?"

Xu Ning was quite surprised.

In my memory, these herbs are worth one or two and a half at most.

"You didn't take care of me so much, did you?"

Xu Ning asked.

"No." Guo Ye replied, "the recycling price of cool withered grass has gone up. It used to be three Liang per kilogram, but now it's six Liang per kilogram."

Then Guo ye took a bundle of cool withered grass in his hand.

The surface is yellow and the grass leaves are slender. It looks like withered weeds.

But when you put it under your nose, it has a faint aroma like smoke.

"Cool withered grass six liang?"

Xu Ning's heart moved when he heard the price.

He suddenly remembered a memory of his predecessor.

A month ago, the predecessor accidentally turned to a place in Yunze mountain. On a further hillside, he found a large area of cool withered grass growing there.

It's just that the place is too dangerous and too close to the inner circle of Yunze mountain. There are many wild animals and poisonous insects and weeds in the inner circle, which is not a small risk, so the predecessor hesitated and didn't dare to pick.

Now, with the growth of their strength and the price increase of cool withered grass, maybe we can have a try.