After walking up the slope, Mao Xiaosui asked him, "How much did you sell?"

After I finished speaking, I heard the sound of claws scratching in the basket.

"No one wants it?" She was a little surprised.

"Sold." Li Yunshan explained with a smile, "The little lady we met in the town before... the one in the cloth shop, she asked me to process the rabbit skin and bring it to her, but I haven't given the money yet."

"how much?"

"It's also a penny." Li Yunshan said, "She may not want to deal with it, or she doesn't know how to deal with it, and wants it ready-made."

"The meat belongs to us?"

"Yes." Li Yunshan nodded, "I'll take care of it after dinner, and go to the mountain in the evening."

"Then dig some fungi."

She hasn’t been to the mountains this year, and she’s also hungry for mushrooms.

"I know." Li Yunshan went to the backyard to feed the chickens, and Mao Xiaosui went back to cook with some wild vegetables in the basket.

Steamed the wild vegetables and picked a handful of green vegetables to make soup.

After eating and washing the pot, Li Yunshan was about to kill the rabbit. .

The rabbit does not need to be bled, just twist the neck and skin it.

She helped lift the rabbit's head and legs to make it easier for him to skin it.

Because it was a business, Li Yunshan was careful when peeling off.

By the time they were done peeling off, both of them were covered in sweat.

Li Yunshan took the rabbit skin and soaked it in the water, threw a handful of plant ashes into it, poured some warm water from the kitchen into the bowl, split the sapodilla nuts with a knife, took out the core and put the skin in to soak.

Mao Xiaosui was already lying on the bed after taking the eggs, and Li Yunshan came soon.

I lay down on the bed and fell asleep without saying a word.

When he woke up in the afternoon, Li Yunshan was already processing rabbit skins. Mao Xiaosui brought a bowl of honey water and moved a stool to bask in the sun.

After drinking the water and going to dig grass, I asked, "Where is Kuroko?"

Li Yunshan replied, "I haven't seen him since I skinned the rabbit."

Mao Xiaosui turned around again and found that the little rabbit was gone, and asked, "Where is the rabbit?"

Li Yunshan went back to the "throwing circle." He pointed his chin to the corner, "The whole family will be dug into it."

Mao Xiaosui followed what he pointed at and smiled immediately, "It's okay to throw it back. It will scare Heizi to death in the yard."

She woke up late, long past her usual working time, so she wasn't in a hurry. She sat down and woke up for a while before packing up and setting off.

As usual, I called Li Xiao by the courtyard wall. I thought I had left long ago, but I didn't expect that he was still at home.

Li Xiao smiled and replied to her, "Wait a minute, I'll do it right away."

Mao Xiaosui responded and called Heizi several times up the mountain. He didn't see it until Li Xiao came out.

He didn't care, and went to cut grass with Li Xiao and Wang Yan.

She asked, "Cousin, are they back?"

"I came back and sold nearly five taels."

"That's not enough, right? The homestead needs more than ten taels."

"I'll ask my parents to borrow some when the time comes, but it won't work..." Li Xiao said, "I'll ask Yunshan to borrow some."

Mao Xiaosui smiled and said nothing.

Li Xiao continued, "Next year I will raise more chickens to sell eggs, and I will sell the hens in winter. Although I am a little tired, I can still make some money..."

She came down late, and after digging most of the baskets of chicken grass, the sun began to set. When she returned to the courtyard and the door was locked, she took the key off the room inside the hut, fed grass to the chickens and rabbits, and picked a handful of green vegetables.

After waiting for the sun to set, Li Yunshan was holding four fish in his hand, a large bundle of branches on his back, and a basket of mushrooms in his other hand. He looked very busy.

She smiled and asked, "When did you go up?"

"Not long."

"Are Li Yunqiang and the others up there?"

"Lu Xiaoxia is digging for fungi, but Yun Qiang is not here." Li Yunshan threw the fish into the water tank, poured the still dripping fungi onto a dustpan to dry, and then spread the branches to dry in the sun.

Mao Xiaosui brought him a bowl of honey water, took a basin, grabbed some fungi, washed them and tore them into pieces.

After Li Yunshan drank the water, he killed two fish and then continued processing the rabbit fur.

In the evening, I stewed mushroom fried rice and cooked fish soup.

After eating, Li Yunshan changed the water for the rabbit fur and soaked it again. Then he picked up a bucket of water and stood in the yard to wash it.

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After the rabbit fur was cleaned, it had to be dried in the sun and kneaded until it was soft and smooth. It was not until the sixth day that Li Yunshan took it to the town to deliver it, including the three remaining ones that had been processed before.

Her legs had cramped for half the night last night. She didn't go digging for grass after Li Yunshan left. She turned over the fungi that Li Yunshan had dug up these days.

Before the work in the new village was finished, Li Yunshan went there intermittently for three days in the morning, and he would not go there again.

It's mid-May now, and it's time to go to the fields.

She lingered at home for a while, finished some work and planned to take a nap.

When the door was blocked, Heizi ran out.

As soon as she lay down on the bed, the door to the sleeping yard rang before she could get there.

Mao Xiaosui didn't want to move. Seeing that the other party just knocked on the door and made no sound, he ignored him.

I slept until past noon, then got up to feed the chickens and rabbits and cook.

I cooked fish soup and simmered rice. After eating, I sat down for a while and fell asleep. Li Yunshan came back.

Sweating profusely, seeing her sitting in a daze and a little stunned, he asked, "What...are you feeling uncomfortable about?"

Mao Xiaosui came back to his senses and hurriedly shook his head, "I fell asleep this morning and am not energetic."

Li Yunshan felt relieved, took out the money from his pocket and handed it to her. After washing the handles in the water tank, he went to the kitchen to serve the meal.

"All sold?"

"Those three were incomplete, so the total was sold for one penny, with a surplus of eighty, and the other one was sold for one penny as agreed before."

"It's cheap to make clothes, right?" Mao Xiaosui asked.

After all, it is rabbit fur. Although it is not big, it is not a common thing.

Li Yunshan nodded, "It might be more expensive to sell it to a fabric store in the county."

"Let's wait until next year." Li Yunshan said, "I will sell more next year if I save more."

Mao Xiaosui put the money away, and Li Yunshan had almost finished eating when he came out.

She went to get the eggs first, and when she came out of the backyard, she saw Heizi coming from the other side of the field.

After a while, I saw it come in with a mountain rat in its mouth and put it at the foot of Li Yunshan.

Li Yunshan finished the fish soup and after a while, helped him peel the mountain rat and dry it.

Mao Xiaosui finished washing the pot and looked at it for a while, then followed him into the house after he was done.

After another nap, I woke up in the afternoon and Li Yunshan was gone, and the basket was also gone.

The sun set in the afternoon, and after Mao Xiaosui had finished cooking, he saw Li Yunshan coming back with a basket and a dog.

She asked curiously, "Did you go to the fields or dig grass?"

"In the ground." Li Yunshan said, "There is a lot of grass in the ground. It will take a few days to pull it out."

Mao Xiaosui nodded. She had a big belly now and couldn't bend down, so she didn't say anything to help. She asked him to put the basket for dinner and went to the kitchen first.

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