The Spirited Daughter-in-law and the Mountain Man

Su Qingyue heard from Third Brother that Li Guaizi in the village specialized in driving a cow’s car to town in the morning and returning in the evening, but it cost three cents to take the ride once.

At this point in time, she not only had no cow’s car available but also had no money to ride one.

It was hot outside, and carrying more than a hundred jin of mushrooms on a carrying pole for a four-hour journey to town, mushrooms would be wilted even if they could be sold. People who sell vegetables all get up particularly early, and wouldn’t do it at this time point.

Wushan Village is far away from the town, and there are very few people who take vegetables to sell.

Carrying it to the town, in case it couldn’t be sold would be troublesome, and she didn’t want to waste the effort either.

She thought and asked, “In these one or two days, are there any people in the village or nearby villages who are going to hold a banquet?”

Aunt Zhang said, “I haven’t heard of anyone in the village planning a banquet in these two days, but Wang Xiaoliu from the neighboring Wang Family Village is marrying a wife and holding a banquet tomorrow. Wife of Xiao Family, why are you asking this?”

“When holding a banquet, a lot of vegetables are needed, including both meat and vegetarian dishes. I wonder if Wang Xiaoliu’s family would want to buy mushrooms.”

“You are a clever girl.”

Su Qingyue was a little embarrassed, “I originally wanted to carry the mushrooms and ask if they would buy them, but they might have already bought the vegetables they need for tomorrow. Although the neighboring village is not far away, making two trips with a carrying pole is exhausting. I might as well go and ask first without carrying anything.”

“You don’t have to go. Auntie Hua is from the neighboring Wang Family Village and married over here. Wang Xiaoliu has to call her uncle’s wife. Auntie Hua is going to the Wang Family Village later on. I’ll have her ask Wang Xiaoliu’s family if they want to buy mushrooms. She’ll be back in the evening, and I’ll have her tell you the answer.”

“Thank you so much… ”

“It’s just a small matter.” Aunt Zhang looked at Su Qingyue’s thin figure, “Your life is really difficult…”

“It will get better. If you don’t need the back basket urgently, I’d like to borrow it for a bit longer.”

“You can borrow it for as long as you want. Our family has another back basket anyway.”

Su Qingyue carried the empty back basket and said goodbye with her own basket in hand.

Old man Zhang’s voice came from inside the Zhang’s house, ‘Wife, who was here?”

“It was the wife from the Xiao Family, she’s already gone. She gave us a basket of mushrooms, weighing at least 10 jin. If we exchanged them for money, it would be more than thirty cents.”

“The wife of the Xiao Family is quite generous… ”

“She’s a sensible person.”

It was probably 10:30 in the morning, and the sun was shining brightly. She had had breakfast late today, so she planned to cook lunch at 2 pm.

The medicinal mud toothpaste she sold yesterday had been in high demand. She had thought more people would come to buy it today, but no one asked about it.

Thus, she wasn’t in a hurry to grind the juice from the five jin of ginger she had bought.

If she wanted to make a lot of money at once, she would have to find and sell precious medicinal herbs such as ginseng and reishi. However, those valuable medicines were in deep mountains and hard to find.

Even with her medical skills, even after she cured her second brother, and while walking out of Aunt Zhang’s house, she could hear people talking about Second Brother’s injury. The villagers believed that Second Brother had drained the poison blood beforehand, and he wouldn’t have died even without treatment, rather than acknowledging that she had cured him.

Some even looked down on her medical skills, thinking that as a woman, she could only have a superficial understanding, and it would be good if she didn’t harm anyone.

As a result, no one came to her for treatment.

Xiao’s house was not located in the concentrated area of the village but on the southern edge of the village. She had just reached the crossroad between her home and the riverside in the south of the village when Doctor Sun Changde, the only doctor in the village, stopped her from behind, “Wife of Xiao Family….