Wu Chao: Take the whole family to escape the famine

Chapter 183 Centuries-old Ginseng Was Eaten by Rats
"Wow, it looks delicious, brother, it's time to eat." Ji Feng shouted excitedly to Ji Xun, who was sitting at the entrance of the cave and was mending his pants while watching the last ray of sunset, drooling.

Ji Xun's trousers have been mended, carefully folded and ready to be put into the suitcase. The suitcase was a little messed up by Shen Yuan before, and he frowned and folded it again.

Shen Yuan, who was sitting at the table serving the porridge, couldn't help biting his lips. This guy is so downcast that he lives in a cave and is so particular about it. Could it be that he has obsessive-compulsive disorder?

Ji Xun sat down after finishing his work.

Crisp and delicious cold fungus and gruel, this meal is delicious for Ji Feng.

Ji Xun was always indifferent, eating his porridge with no expression on his face, not touching the fungus, as if he was afraid that Shen Yu'an would poison it and murder him.

"Brother, why don't you eat it? The cold fungus made by sister-in-law is delicious." Ji Feng chewed the fungus, staring at Ji Xun with a pair of big and bright eyes.

Ji Xun glanced at Ji Feng, and said softly: "Feng eat less cold food, so as not to spoil his stomach."

Ji Feng let out a cry, but couldn't help but continue to pinch. At this moment, Shen Yuyan looked at Ji Feng with a smile: "It's true that cold food should not be eaten too much. If Ah Feng likes to eat, sister-in-law will make it next time."

"Hmm." Shen Yuan spoke, and Ji Feng put down his chopsticks, patted his belly and hiccupped contentedly.

After dinner, it was almost dark, and I was reluctant to light the lamp, so I washed up hastily in the dim light, and got ready to go to bed.

Ji Xun moved the 'door' made of wood to block the entrance of the hole, so that the beasts would not be able to enter.

The little guy took off his outer clothes and swung himself on the small bed, "Brother, my bed is too small to sleep in. Go and sleep with your sister-in-law." You can have a baby, won't he have a playmate soon?
Hearing these words, Ji Xun frowned in disgust. Is this evil girl pretending to be like this for a whole day?It's abominable to instigate a child to say such things and teach a child badly!

Shen Yuan glanced at the door-like figure, the light was too dark to see his face clearly, but he could feel the faint murderous aura emanating from the darkness.

The original owner and Ji Xun did not consummate their marriage. Of course, it was not because the original owner was unwilling, but because Ji Xun refused to touch her at all.

There was such a thing in my mind, one night in the middle of the night, the original owner sneaked onto Ji Xun's bed, and Ji Xun kicked him off the bed, hitting the back of his head with a big bump.

The original owner was so angry that his temper became more and more violent. He felt that a cripple and an ugly man would dare to despise her?As a result, she is even more resentful.

Now that Ji Feng said such a thing, Ji Xun must have thought that she was behind it.Shen Yuan scratched his forehead in embarrassment, feeling extremely embarrassed, "Ah Feng, come here, you and your brother sleep on the big bed, and your sister-in-law sleeps on the small bed."

"This~~~"

"What is this? You, a little brat, have arranged things for adults? Come here."

"Oh~~." The little guy had no choice but to climb onto the big bed.

The small bed was just right for Shen Yu'an to sleep. She hugged the quilt and listened to Ji Feng's even breathing, but Ji Xun should not have fallen asleep quietly.

I don't know what to say to him so that he can dispel his hostility towards him. Forget it, they will reconcile sooner or later.

It seems that Ji Xun was also entrusted by the original owner's father, Shen Hong, to marry her, so he didn't like her at all.

And it's impossible for her to be tied up with a man who has no feelings at all, it's better to be hostile to her, and when the time comes to earn more money and give him more, he will definitely agree to divorce.

It was also too tired, Shen Yuan fell asleep after thinking about it, and when he woke up again, it was already dawn.

I was startled when I opened my eyes, why live in a cave?After being confused for a long time, I remembered that I had traveled through time. After being depressed for a while, I sat up.

The person on the big bed next to him had already got up, the quilts were neatly folded, the door of the cave was half opened, and Ji Xun's voice came from outside.

"Stand upright, look ahead, head up, as if suspended by a thread..."

Shen Yuan rubbed his eyes and got up, walked to the entrance of the cave with his shoes on and took a look. Ji Xunzheng taught Ji Feng Zhama stance on the flat ground outside the cave, with a serious look on his face.

Ji Xun was a soldier, so it's normal for him to like to practice kung fu. Shen Yuan stood at the entrance of the cave for a while, yawned and went back to the house to wash.

After breakfast, Ji Xun explained to Ji Feng and went into the mountain, while Shen Yuan decided to go to the town to sell the [-]-year-old ginseng dug up yesterday.

She put the wild ginseng into the back basket, and said to Ji Feng: "Let's go, go to the town with my sister-in-law." Bring a child and have a companion.

"Going to town? Really?" Ji Feng was holding a slingshot and was going to find his friends to hunt birds. After hearing Shen Yuan's words, he quickly put away the slingshot, and took Shen Yuan's hand and happily left the cave.

To go to the town, you have to pass through the village. In the morning, the village is covered with a layer of mist. The green mountains, green waters, and rural houses are hazy like a fairyland.

"Yuan, where are you taking your brother this early in the morning?" Aunt Zhou was sweeping the floor in the main room when she passed by the door of Aunt Zhou's house, and when she saw Shen Yuan coming, she straightened up and stared at them.

Shen Yuan didn't treat Ji Feng well, maybe he wanted to sell him?

"Didn't I pick some herbs yesterday? I took my brother to the town to sell them."

Aunt Zhou didn't understand the first half of the sentence, but she heard the second half clearly. Take her brother to the town to sell?It's worth it.

He hurriedly stopped Shen Yuan: "Yuan, wait a minute, brother Xingwang is going to the town too, let him give you a ride." After speaking, he rushed to the backyard and shouted: "Xingwang? Have you harnessed your ox cart? Hurry up ah."

"Oh, here we come."

Following the sound, a simple and honest boy of seventeen or eighteen came out of the backyard driving an ox cart.

Aunt Zhou told Shen Xingwang: "Yuan is going to the town with her younger brother. Yuan is young, so you can help me to see what she sells." She said and winked at Shen Xingwang.

Shen Xingwang had also heard of the name 'Shen Yu'an', knowing that his mother was worried that Shen Yuan would sell his brother Ji Feng, so he agreed with a smile, drove the ox cart to Shen Yuan's side, and greeted them to get on the car.

"Thank you Brother Xingwang." After climbing into the bullock cart, Shen Yuan thanked him habitually.

"It's all from my family, thank you." Shen Xingwang scratched the back of his head embarrassingly, thinking that Shen Yuan was not as stupid as the rumors said.

The bullock cart rang its bell and drove through the center of the village. When it passed the door of Shen's house, Shen stopped him, "Go to the town, Xingwang, can you take my family back for a ride?" Didn't see it, took out a red rope and taught Ji Feng to turn the flower rope.

"Yes." Shen Xingwang stopped the ox cart and waited at the door.

Shen looked away and talked to Shen Xingwang: "The two of them want to go to town with you?"

"En." Shen Xingwang nodded.

"Xingwang, Auntie kindly reminds you that if you take him to the town, if he gets lost in a fool, Ji Zizi asks if you want someone, can you afford it?"

Shen Xingwang smiled and said: "Don't worry, Auntie, I will go with you whatever you want to sell or buy, and I will definitely bring them back."

After hearing these words, Shen Yuan couldn't help but look at Shen Xingwang with admiration. This young man's temperament is as kind and upright as his mother. This kind of quality is very rare, especially the original owner is not a good person and has a bad reputation in the village. He is willing to treat her like this There are not many people.

Seeing Shen Xingwang's answer like this, Mrs. Shen was speechless, and yelled into the room: "Is Xi Xi all right? Don't make you brother Xingwang wait for a long time."

"Come on."

Following the sound of Shen Xi coming out of the house in a beautiful manner, he was stunned for a moment when he caught a glimpse of Shen Yu'an.

Idiot Shen obviously can't swim, I don't know why he didn't get drowned yesterday, it's really unlucky to have to ride with her in an ox cart today.

Shen Yuan didn't even look at her, as if he didn't know her, happily flipped the rope with Ji Feng, Shen Xi gouged her out and got into the bullock cart.

After Shen gave some worried instructions, the ox cart started to move.

As soon as Shen Xi got into the car, she tensed up and was ready for a fight. She kicked Shen Yuan into the lake yesterday, so she had to prevent her from kicking him off the bullock cart today.

The strange thing is that Shen Yu'an was very quiet today. At the beginning, he and the mop bottle got tired and fell asleep on her lap. She just looked at the distant scenery and meditated silently, just like It's like a different person.

Shen Xi wished that Shen Yu'an would not find fault, and she didn't want to fight. Wouldn't it be over if she was dressed so gorgeously today?
Shen Yu'an's attention wasn't on Shen Xi at all, and while looking at the scenery, he happily calculated how much the century-old ginseng could sell for.

Do you have five hundred taels of silver?There is no five hundred and two hundred and two hundred taels, right?The money to buy a house must be enough, where to buy the house?Or do you want to divide the money with Ji Xun, and everyone get together and go their separate ways?

After thinking happily all the way, the bullock cart entered the town, and it took less than half an hour. After entering the town, Shen Xi got out of the cart and left.

Ji Feng woke up after a nap, rubbing his blurry eyes: "Sister-in-law, have you arrived in town yet?"

"Well, it's here." Shen Yuan replied, and then said to Shen Xingwang, "Brother Xingwang, I'm going to the pharmacy in the town to sell medicinal materials."

"Okay." Shen Xingwang agreed, and drove the ox cart to the gate of Baohe Hall in the town, "Go, I'll wait here."

"Thank you Brother Xingwang." Shen Yuan got off the bullock cart, grabbed the pan, and told Ji Feng, "Ah Feng is waiting for my sister-in-law in the car, she will be back in a while."

"Yeah." Ji Feng nodded obediently, feeling a little drowsy after sleeping all the way.

Shen Yuan entered the medicine hall with a basket on his back.

The clerk in the pharmacy was about the same age as Shen Yu'an, and he was very kind, and he didn't look down on her because of her shabby clothes.

"No, I'm here to sell medicine." Xiaoyou said as he put down the basket, and took out a few Tianqi and Zhonglou, "How much can these be sold for?"

The clerk looked at it and gave a fair price, "This Tianqi and Zhonglou are not bad, they can be sold for a total of [-] yuan."

Shen Yuan didn't have any idea about ancient currency, but felt that this guy was an honest man and would not deceive her.

"Okay, it's sold."

"Okay." The buddy agreed, and collected the medicinal materials to get the money.

Shen Yuan took out the cloth bag containing wild ginseng from the back basket, and was about to open it, when he suddenly found a big hole in the cloth bag bitten by a mouse.

I'm going, what's the situation?
Shen Yuan opened the cloth bag with a heart in his hand, lying on the grass!The hundred-year-old wild ginseng was almost eaten by mice.

There is no place to put the simple things in the cave. Last night, after wrapping up the wild ginseng, it was inconvenient to enter the space, so it was placed directly on the stool in the corner. I don’t know which mouse became a ghost, and only one piece of her century-old wild ginseng was left. Zhang Pi had a few whiskers hanging from him, huh~~~ Damn mouse, you can't kill it!
"Girl, this wild ginseng... Oh, what a pity." When the clerk came over with the money, he felt sorry for Shen Yuan, "Look at this beard? If it hadn't been eaten by mice, At least three or four hundred taels can be sold."

Shen Yu'an is also in heartache and liver pain, all her money has been fed to mice, is there anyone more unlucky than her?

"Then, can you still sell the rest of this?" Shen Yuan looked at the buddy pitifully.

"Wait a minute, girl, I'll invite the shopkeeper." The clerk couldn't make a decision, so he went to the back hall, and soon a chunky middle-aged man came out from the back hall, staring at the mountain in Shen Yuan's hand while walking Shen, shook his head while sighing.

"Hey, Miss, this luck... Is it good or bad? This wild ginseng should be more than a hundred years old, and it is rare to find, but it was eaten by a mouse... Really, it is rare!"

It was rare for Shen Yuan to be in the mood to joke, "Isn't it? This abominable mouse gnawed on my century-old ginseng, and I guess it will ascend to immortality."

Seeing her being so open-minded, the shopkeeper couldn't help but take a deep look at her: "The rest of this, girl, will you sell it?"

"Sell." Shen Yuan shrugged, "You can't take it back and feed it to the mice." The guy was almost amused.

The shopkeeper also smiled: "Then I'll make an offer, the girl will sell it to me if she can sell it, ten taels of silver."

A few hundred taels turned into ten taels, and Shen Yuan felt like he had won ten million lottery tickets and didn't go to claim them, but the ten taels shopkeeper gave enough, just those two or three whiskers.

"Sold, thank you shopkeeper."

"Okay." The shopkeeper didn't actually earn much money, so he took these things that must be used as medicine, and ordered the waiter to take the ginseng, and then personally handed over two heavy silver coins to Shen Yu'an, and kindly told her: "Girl take it, Don’t let your money go out.”

"En." Shen Yuan took it with both hands, and thanked the shopkeeper with a bow.

The mood is also very excited, this is the first money she earned in ancient times!A total of ten taels of silver, two cold ingots!She got it when she was penniless. Thinking about how God treats her well, she is not greedy!
He was happily preparing to wrap the money with the piece of cloth that was bitten by the mouse, and the shopkeeper saw that she didn't even bother to pack a bag and gave her another one, which moved Shen Yuan very much.

"Uncle shopkeeper, what's your name?" Shen Yuan wrapped the silver and put it in the basket, and asked the shopkeeper respectfully, thinking that if he wanted to use his medical skills in the future, he would definitely cooperate with this uncle.

"Miangui's surname is Bai, where's the girl?" The shopkeeper also thought this girl was interesting, so he asked casually.

Shen Yuan hurriedly replied solemnly: "My surname is Shen, and my name is Shen Yuan. Thank you, shopkeeper Bai." Then he waved to the shopkeeper and left the medicine hall with a basket on his back.

She climbed into the ox cart and said to Shen Xingwang: "Brother Xingwang, how much delay will you have to wait like this? Why don't you go and do your work, and we will meet at the gate of the town when we go back?"

Shen Xingwang hurriedly shook his head resolutely: "How can this work? I said to take good care of you, so I must do it. What are you going to buy next? Brother Xingwang will take you to buy everything, and then I will do my own thing."

"Okay, then I'm going to buy some rice and some vegetables, and I also need to go to a clothing store to buy clothes, and I also need to buy a hoe."

"Okay." Shen Xingwang didn't think it was strange either. Ji Xun spent fifty taels of bride price when he married Shen Yuan, which was a huge sum of money in the countryside, and it's normal to have some money left to live on.

(End of this chapter)