Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 154 Request

Song Tian glanced at Song Yuan and pouted, "My little brother has been in school for a few months. He knows the way. Let him go by himself. I went there by myself at the beginning, and no one saw me off."

Li's face darkened instantly: "Just wash the dishes when I ask you to. Why are you talking so much nonsense? Are you dying of exhaustion just by washing the dishes?"

Song Tian wanted to argue, but Yang came out of the room with a bookcase and urged him, "Hurry up and wash the dishes. If you had the time to mutter, the dishes would have been washed long ago."

"Okay, just for this morning." Second Uncle Song patted the table, turned to Song Yuan and said, "When you get to the school, ask your brother Ziliang and the others when they will leave. When they leave, they will call you and you can go with them.

You will come back with them this afternoon, and your mother will not pick you up. She will be busy at home every day taking you to school."

Song Yuan nodded happily and quickly responded, "Okay, I understand!"

He had long wanted to be with his classmates and had mentioned it to his family at the instigation of his sister, but the adults disagreed, saying they were afraid he would skip school. No matter how much he swore and swore, it was of no use.

Uncle Song nodded and warned sternly: "Don't climb the tung tree. Come back and review your lessons after school!"

"I know, I know."

Song Yuan didn't think there was anything fun about climbing trees. In the past six months, when he followed his sisters to collect herbs, he had climbed many trees. But he was too lazy to climb trees that were not medicinal.

After finishing his schooling, Second Uncle Song looked at Song Tian again and said, "What are you still standing here for? Go wash the dishes and chase the ducks out when you go out."

Song Tian's face fell and he secretly regretted in his heart that he should not have fought for it. Not only did he not escape washing dishes, but he also had to take on the additional job of herding ducks.

He pouted and reluctantly collected the dishes and went to the kitchen to wash them.

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It was a cool morning and there were no acquaintances to chat with, so Song Ying arrived at the clinic quickly.

Seeing her, Lin Wenxuan was stunned for a while, "Why are you here so early today?"

Not to mention that they used to sell herbs basically in the afternoon, even people from their village who went to the market rarely arrived in the county town so early.

Song Ying smiled and said, "Let's talk inside. Have you had breakfast? I bought some buns and brought some for you and Doctor Ma as well." As he spoke, Song Ying shook the oil-paper bag in his hand.

"That's perfect. A leprosy patient came early in the morning. My master and I just finished our work and haven't had time to buy breakfast yet." Lin Wenxuan took the oil paper bag with a smile, "Please put the backpack in the backyard. I'll go give the buns to my master first."

Song Ying nodded and walked towards the backyard with familiarity. When she passed the front hall door, she saw that there were already several patients waiting inside, and Doctor Ma was taking the pulse of a child. Song Ying couldn't help but sigh. She thought she was early enough, but she didn't expect that there were people who were earlier than her.

She had just arrived at the backyard and hadn't put down her backpack yet when Lin Wenxuan came in with a bun in his mouth.

Song Ying asked curiously, "Why are there so many patients so early?"

Lin Wenxuan said without being surprised: "It's like this every day. These people live far away, and some of them set out with torches in the middle of the night. They try to return as soon as possible after seeing the doctor so as not to delay farm work."

"So that's how it is." Song Ying suddenly realized. She felt sympathy for these people, but she did not agree with their approach. Compared with farm work in the fields, she still felt that health was more important. If the farm work was delayed for a few days, it was indeed possible to miss a season of crops, but if the health was delayed, the person might very likely die.

"You haven't told me yet, why aren't the others with you so early today?" Lin Wenxuan asked again.

Song Ying sighed: "Something unexpected happened. Our business of making money by collecting herbs was exposed..."

At that moment, she told Lin Wenxuan the most important things that happened yesterday, and finally said: "So from now on, only I can be sure to continue selling herbs. They have to see what their families say first."

Lin Wenxuan was stunned: "You really moved out to live alone? How dangerous! You are a girl, your family really let you live alone?!"

Song Ying explained: "I live in the ancestral house, which is separated from my great-grandfather's house by a wall. Except that I fire my own firewood, it is no different from living with them.

Besides, the people in our village are pretty nice, there aren't any bold hooligans."

"That's also very dangerous. The ancestral house you live in is not in the same yard as your great-grandfather's house. It has its own door and yard, so it's inevitable that there are places that cannot be taken care of."

Lin Wenxuan had stayed in the Song family's main house for one night and still had an impression of the house. He immediately remembered the dilapidated ancestral house next to it.

"Also, those two houses are so shabby, and the roofs are still thatched. They will definitely leak when it rains. How can people live in them?"

Song Ying said nonchalantly, "Let's wait until it rains. I need to slowly prepare things now. Once we get through this initial period, things will get better in the future."

Seeing her so optimistic, Lin Wenxuan didn't want to discourage her anymore. He thought for a moment and asked, "Do you want to try growing herbs?"

"I don't have any land." Song Ying sighed continuously.

When she first started collecting herbs, she had the idea of planting them, but she quickly gave up the idea because, firstly, she had to keep it a secret from her family, and secondly, planting required land, and they had no land, not even to open up wasteland.

Now she doesn't have to hide it, but she doesn't have any land. After her father died, because she had no sons, the land allocated to her was quickly taken back by the head of the village and distributed to other adults.

Because of this incident, her grandmother cursed her dead mother for a long time.

Although she really wanted a piece of land, Song Ying knew very well that she couldn't get it. Even if it was next to her ancestral home, she could set aside some land to make a vegetable garden, but it couldn't be too big, let alone grow herbs to make money.

That would surely make the villagers jealous, and then they would take back the medicinal land she had prepared, and she would not be working for others.

Lin Wenxuan couldn't help but sigh at her difficulties, so he had to tell her about the latest types of scarce medicinal materials and give her the highest purchase price within his ability.

Song Ying was even more grateful to him, and asked shamelessly: "Can I ask you for another favor?"

Lin Wenxuan didn't mind the trouble at all and said kindly, "You go ahead."

"If my friends' parents want to sell herbs together later, can you lower the price on the surface and help them keep some of the money?"

Lin Wenxuan was stunned. He had no idea that this was the kind of help she was talking about. After a long while, he said, "Okay."

Over the past year or so, he had become very familiar with the situation of the girls in Xinghua Village. He knew that they had a difficult life, so he was naturally happy to lend a hand. Besides, helping would only require some effort and was not difficult, and would not harm him in any way.