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Neither Li Qiusheng nor Li Mingjin knew about Mrs. Li's worries. One of their favorite things now is to look for the corresponding herbs at the foot of the back mountain according to the booklet left by Mr. Xing.

After they basically searched the foot of the back mountain, there were still several herbs that were not found in the booklet. After repeated inspection and recall, Li Mingjin suddenly recalled that the picture of one of the herbs was familiar to him, as if he was on the back mountain seen.

The back mountain of Shanghe Village does not specifically refer to a certain sitting mountain, but a general name. The back mountain is backed by a large continuous mountain range. The small circle of relatively low mountains surrounding Shanghe Village is collectively called by the villagers. back mountain.

Under normal circumstances, the back mountain is relatively safe, and there will be no large beasts. Whether it is the villagers or the children of Shanghe Village, they often go to the back mountain in groups to chop firewood and find edible gadgets.

After Li Mingjin recalled that there might be one of these herbs on the back mountain, that afternoon, he and Li Qiusheng went up the mountain with a small backpack on their backs.

The weather in April has become quite warm, and there is a lot of food on the back mountain, such as mushrooms and fungus that grow after the rain, bamboo shoots that have just emerged, wild fruits that are not yet fully ripe, and wild vegetables all over the mountains. At this time, I will look for someone to eat and walk up the mountain. When I go down the mountain, the empty back basket is full of edible things.

When Li Qiusheng was at Liang's house, he hardly ever went out to look for food outside. After arriving at Li's house, Mistress Li felt sorry for his poor health and didn't let him do much work. He didn't know much about what to eat on the mountain.

Li Mingjin was not much different. Li Chengshi came back from the border within two years of his birth, and then went to work as a servant in the county government. Life in Li's family was getting better every day.

Therefore, since Li Mingjin can remember, Mrs. Li has rarely gone to the mountains. Only the children of the family will go to the mountains to find wild fruits and have fun. In Li Mingjin's cognition, the edible things on the mountains are wild Fruits, hares, pheasants, pheasants, etc.

This time, the purpose of Li Mingjin and Li Qiusheng going up the mountain was to find herbs, but there is such a huge back mountain, where is the best place to find it?

It was Li Qiusheng who thought of a way. He thought that since Brother Jin was familiar with this herb, it should grow in some places that Brother Jin often went to, and they started looking for it from those places.

When Li Mingde and Li Mingli were still at home, their two brothers liked to take their younger siblings to play by the creek in the back mountain in summer. The water in the creek was not deep. Comfortable.

With a goal in mind, the two of them went to the creek to find out if there were any herbs recorded in the pamphlets nearby.

It may be that the seeds of many plants failed to germinate due to the lack of rain last year, and all of them were saved until this year. With sufficient rain, a lot of weeds grew in clumps of clumps where there were not many grasses by the creek. .

This small area changed into an unfamiliar appearance for Li Mingjin, but the terrain did not change. He quickly found the plant in his memory, which happened to be the herbal medicine recorded in the pamphlet.

This made the two of them very happy, and quickly dug up a lot of this herb from the side of the stream, and Li Qiusheng took it home to dispose of it.

With the experience of going to the back mountain to look for herbs for the first time, Li Mingjin and Li Qiusheng began to frequent the back mountain, finding all the herbs mentioned in the brochure bit by bit.

Day by day, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and it is the end of May.

Li Mingjin dreamed again at this time, and this time he woke up with a strange expression, because the dream was a bit long, and he actually went through the cause and effect, which lasted for several months.

Since October last year, Limingchun and Limingxia have officially learned embroidery from Jiang Zhiyun. Up to now, the two sisters have learned a little bit, and the purses, handkerchiefs, belts, and headscarves that took a lot of effort to embroider look pretty. Not bad, the stitching is fine, the color is beautiful, and the cloth shop in the county can sell for a good price.

You have to know that when the two sisters first started to learn embroidery, they had to spend money on embroidery threads and fabrics. Qian Xinghua would always mutter and scold at the two sisters when there was no one at home. Expressing her dissatisfaction made the two sisters terrified.

As the things they embroidered became more and more beautiful, Qian Xinghua should have considered that Jiang Zhiyun could earn money from embroidery, so her two daughters could also earn money from embroidery, so she finally had fewer opinions on the two sisters.

At the end of March this year, the handkerchiefs and purses that the two sisters spent half a year embroidering were sent to the cloth shop by Li Chengshi at one time, and returned in exchange for [-] cash. Seeing the real money, Qian Xinghua finally stopped talking. , just looked at the eyes of the two sisters with dissatisfaction.

After all, all girls are going to get married. Even if her two money-losing daughters can practice embroidery skills to perfection, better than Jiang Zhiyun, after they get married, all the money they earn will not have to be given to their husband's family. Where can I fish for Xinghua?

Qian Xinghua always judges the two daughters with her own ideas. She is unwilling to subsidize her natal family, so she only thinks that the two daughters will not marry her natal family. In fact, the relationship between the two girls, Li Chengli and the entire Li family is now They are all good, but they are not close to their mothers.

At the end of April, the two sisters exchanged more than 200 yuan for their embroidery. Li Chengli kept all the money and did not give Qian Xinghua. Qian Xinghua was so angry that she almost crushed her small teeth.

It has been more than half a year since she returned to Li's house, and Qian Xinghua has relaxed her previous appearance of carefully currying favor with Li Chengli and Mrs. Li, but she still doesn't dare to order her two daughters to do things as she did before, beat and scold them at will, and cheat her. girls stuff.

Just when Qian Xinghua was really looking for a chance to save some money, an opportunity came to her.

Li Mingchun has already made an engagement with Bai Chen of the Bai family. Bai Chen is a thoughtful boy. He is not welcome in his own family. He knows that if he continues to live like this, when Li Mingchun marries him, he will definitely be respected by the elders in his family. of learning.

Bai Chen thinks that her parents raised her and they should let her work, but Li Mingchun is different. She didn't eat a grain of rice or drink a sip of water from the Bai family. After learning, he wanted a change.

The whole winter, Bai Chen has been thinking about this problem, how can he change his current situation, firstly he is illiterate, secondly, he has no elders who support him, and thirdly, he knows nothing but farming and working, he thinks about it He didn't think of any good way.

Until the news came out from the Li family that Li Mingli, who had passed the Tongsheng examination, actually gave up the opportunity to continue his studies and went to a bookstore in the county town to work as an apprentice.

In the hearts of so many people in the countryside, reading is a very noble thing. The kid from the Li family actually gave up and went to be an apprentice. child.

However, the practice of Liming Ceremony reminded Bai Chen that he doesn't know anything now, but he is still young and can learn, going out to be an apprentice is a road ahead of him.

Everyone knows that it is not easy to learn a craft at such a time. Being commanded by the master like a cow and a horse, not to mention all the dirty work, you may not be able to learn the true skills of the master just like this. Therefore, those whose family conditions are slightly better are reluctant to let their children go out to suffer.

After Bai Chen had this idea, he didn't tell his parents and grandma directly, he did the most daring thing in his life - went directly to the elders of the Bai family.

In Shanghe Village, the Bai family is a big family. Apart from the village head, the clan elders are the most prestigious. The Bai clan will basically not object to things that the clan elders agree to.

There are a lot of people in the Bai clan, and the clan elders are old. They don't have much impression of Bai Chen, an uncharacteristic boy from the Bai family. Naturally, they don't agree to Bai Chen's request. From the perspective of their elders, farming is the best Yes, it's nonsense to leave the ground well and run out to learn any crafts.

Bai Chen returned home disappointed. He was unwilling to let the way out that he had finally thought of be blocked like this, so he went to find Village Chief Bai, the clan uncle he had hardly spoken to before.

Outsiders don't know the filth of Bai Chen and his house, but the people of the Bai nationality know a little bit about it, especially the village head Bai who has to manage the whole village. The situation of the two families.

That's why Bai Chen would have such an idea. Village head Bai understood. He looked at the child with a firm expression and clear eyes in front of him, thought of the situation between him and Li Mingchun, and after thinking about it all night, he decided to help them.

With the support of Village Chief Bai, Bai Chen told his family that he wanted to go out as an apprentice.

Bai Chen's parents and grandma were furious when they heard Bai Chen's words. Most of the people who sent their children out to be apprentices were those whose families were too poor to afford food. Otherwise, who would have the heart to send their children out to suffer.

After all, Liming Li's situation is different from Bai Chen's. Li Mingli has the fame of being a child. The place where he works as an apprentice is a bookstore. He gets in touch with books and knows scholars. No one else would appreciate such a laborious job as a mason.

"You bastard, I think you are free all day long, and you still have time to think about these things!" Bai Chen's father was so angry that he wanted to slap Bai Chen twice, but because the village chief was here, he endured it and just slapped him hard. He stared hard at Bai Chen.

Village head Bai pretended that he didn't see Father Bai Chen's movements, and said calmly, "I think it's good that Bai Chen is willing to learn a craft. There are people in my wife's natal village who can do carpentry. If you are willing, I can send Bai Chen to my daughter-in-law's natal village to study."

Bai Chen's father was very dissatisfied with what Village Chief Bai said, and he expressed his attitude directly: "Brother, I will not agree with Bai Chen to learn carpentry, please go back."

Seeing that Bai Chen's father refused so simply, Village Chief Bai couldn't say anything more, so he exchanged a glance with Bai Chen and left the fifth room of Bai's house.

After Village Chief Bai left, Bai Chen was scolded by the three elders in turn, and then made to kneel again.

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