Medicine Girl Jingjing

Chapter 36
Li Jingjing smiled at Mimi and said: "I want a medicine room, a small warehouse for storing medicines, a one-acre medicine field, and a brick and tile enclosure for raising medicine animals."

Deng's face was surprised.

Qu Kuaishou said happily: "Okay! I will set aside an acre of land for the clan this afternoon, and find someone to build a medicine room, warehouse, and brick and tile circle for you."

Qu smiled and said: "Brother, I will pay for the floor, bricks, and stones. The helpers who come to build the house will each receive ten copper coins a day without food."

Deng made a rough calculation in his mind. Now that the land price has risen, the land that can grow live medicinal herbs must be good land, at least ten taels of silver per mu. It costs three taels of silver, plus the furniture in the pharmacy, the total is about 30 taels of silver.

With so much money, an ordinary family in the village is enough to build two houses and buy an acre of land to marry a guest.

Qu Jiujiu and Qu Duo spent a year in the county academy on repairs, board and lodging together only 30 taels of silver.

She couldn't help but said: "Sister, your family really loves Jingjing."

Li Jingjing smiled and said: "Uncle and grandpa promised to help me find land and find someone, and he also dotes on me."

Qu Kuaishou was so excited that he went to the old patriarch to ask for land.

Half an hour later, Qu Kuaishou came back excitedly, and said with a smile: "Sister Jing, the patriarch has spoken, the front yard, the back yard, and the wasteland at the end of the village are all yours. You won't be charged a copper coin. I'll let your grandma come in the afternoon." His family gets the title deed."

Li Jingjing was overjoyed when she heard it. The front and back yards of the house had half an acre of open land, and the wasteland at the end of the village was next to the mountain, which was more than two mu by visual estimation.

Qu was overjoyed at first, and then asked: "The land at the end of the village can be used for farming, so how could you give it to my family without money?"

Qu Kuaishou said excitedly: "Sister, you forgot that Zhang's family used to live at the end of the village. Their family fled to the county due to civil strife more than ten years ago, and they were killed by the officers and soldiers of the former government as rioters. Their heads were hung on the gate of the county seat."

Qu's eyes were confused, as if he was recalling.

Qu Kuaishou continued: "His house and land have been deserted all the time. Everyone in the clan thinks it is bad luck, and no one is willing to buy it. The county measured the fields the year before last, and my uncle told his family's land situation, and the county Officials designated it as waste land. Of course, the waste land does not need money to buy, so Tang Shu gave it to sister Jing."

Li Jingjing hugged Qu Kuaishou's thigh with a smile, and shouted: "That's great. Uncle and grandpa are so powerful, he will help me get a piece of land for nothing!"

Qu Kuaishou said: "Uncle and grandpa don't have much credit, if you want to thank you, thank the patriarch." Then he asked: "Sister Jing, everyone in the clan thinks that land is unlucky, are you afraid?"

Li Jingjing shook her head and said, "I grow medicinal herbs and raise medicinal animals in that field, and I don't live there, so I'm not afraid. But I don't know if my medicinal herbs and medicinal animals will be afraid."

He Shi laughed and said, "I haven't even got the title deed, so I'm returning your medicinal herbs and medicinal beasts."

Li Jingjing said confidently with her arms akimbo: "Just wait and see, within two years, I will have a lot of medicinal herbs and medicinal animals."

Little Deng has been sitting and listening, her needlework has not stopped, and she couldn't help asking kindly: "Sister Jing, the three mu of land is still used to grow medicinal herbs, how do you cultivate it by yourself?"

He's said with a mysterious smile: "Sister Jing has a lot of ideas. You will know when the time comes."

Little Deng asked very curiously: "Do you want to invite people from the clan?"

Qu Kuai vaguely had the answer in his heart, but he was not sure.

After the two families had lunch, Qu Kuai accompanied Qu to the old patriarch's house to get the title deed.

He Shi counted the gifts brought by Qu Kuaishou and his wife at home.

In the two bamboo baskets were a preserved dog leg weighing four catties, a preserved chicken, a preserved duck, four kinds of dried fruits, and four packs of snacks.

Two large parcels contained three pieces of silk cloth, eight pieces of fine cotton cloth, a nobile with butterfly wings inlaid with pearls, a gold hairpin inlaid with turquoise flowers, and a pair of short silver hairpins adorned with tiny strings of pearls.

Mrs. He picked up the gold hairpin inlaid with pearls and butterfly wings and looked at it. Its appearance and style were no less than the gold hairpin worn by Mrs. Lin on Mid-Autumn Festival last year, and said softly, "Uncle, aunt is really expensive."

Li Jingjing put a pair of short silver hairpins on her bun head, and ran to the bedroom to look for the bronze mirror.

The little girl in the mirror has a sea on her forehead, white porcelain skin, a pair of big almond eyes on an oval face, eyes as bright as stars, long curly eyelashes, a small slightly raised nose, and a small rose red cherry mouth.

Her black hair is combed in double buns, and a short silver hairpin with shining silver light is inserted in each bun. The hairpins are adorned with six tiny pearls that look like orange seeds, which is rich and playful.

In a blink of an eye, she has changed from a suckling baby to a beautiful young girl who has just shown her beauty.

Qu's laughing voice sounded from behind, "Is Miss Jing wearing a hairpin so pretty here?"

Li Jingjing turned her head and saw that Mrs. Qu was holding two pieces of paper in her hand, and said happily, "Grandma, did you get the land deed back?"

Qu handed the land deed to Li Jingjing, and said with a smile, "Look at the name, right?"

Li Jingjing looked at the land deed with the handprint of the old patriarch and the seal of Qujia Village, and her name was written on the top land deed owner.

Qu Shi stretched out her hand to stroke Li Jingjing's hair, and said with a smile: "Put it away quietly, this is your dowry from grandma. From now on, all the medicinal herbs and medicinal animals in the field will belong to you. Save it well."

"Grandma is so kind to me." Li Jingjing hugged Qu Shi moved.

Qu smiled and said: "You are also very good to me. The freckles on grandma's face and hands disappeared after using the medicine you made. I drank the autumn pear ointment you boiled, and I didn't get angry and cough all winter. You insisted on giving me medicine every day. Soak feet with herbs to promote blood circulation, help sleep and maintain skin."

The mother-in-law and grandson collected the land deed and went to the main room.Qu Shi gave the gold hairpin to He Shi, and he left a turquoise inlaid flower tin for himself.

He said sincerely: "Mother, this gold hairpin is reserved for Qu Bing's bridegroom."

Qu put the golden hairpin in He's hand, smiled and said, "I'll see you put it on, so you can take it."

On the way to the old patriarch's house just now, Qu Kuaishou told her that your daughter-in-law is a hundred times better than mine, and that she can be the wife of a rich and powerful man in Tanzhou Prefecture.

Li Yunxiao ran over from the yard and snatched the golden hairpin from He's hand, stomped his feet and shouted, "Why didn't uncle and uncle buy me a present?"

Qu rushed to grab it, and shouted: "Little ancestor, my grandson, quickly give me your mother's gold hairpin."

Li Jingjing pointed to the 11 yuan colorful cloth on the table of the Eight Immortals, and shouted: "Xiao Yazi, my uncle and grandma bought you gifts. Look at this cloth, two pieces are for you to make clothes and pants. Grandma and I You and your mother only have one piece, so you can only be together."

Only then did Li Yunxiao return the gold hairpin to Qu Shi, and ran out cheerfully.

He stretched out his hand and lightly poked Li Jingjing's forehead, and said with a light smile, "You are a clever little man, you can make your second brother happy with just a few words."

Li Jingjing dug out a piece of bright yellow silk from a pile of cloth, held it for gestures on her body, and said with a smile: "Who told him to be stupid than me, I don't know that silk and silver hairpins are much more expensive than cloth."

(End of this chapter)