Chapter 60 Transforming the Back Basket

After Mrs. Xu went out, Xu Xinger proudly raised her eyebrows to Xu Laoshi and looked like she was asking for credit. She smiled and said, "Fourth uncle, hang your head and study hard. Then come back with a top student for the milk, and then marry a daughter."

Who knows that Mrs. Xu didn't go far. When she heard this outside, she raised her voice and said, "No, how much do you have to eat? I don't have so much hope for your fourth uncle. Besides, if you get a daughter-in-law and come back to be your daughter-law, you won't do anything. Will I serve her or will she serve me?"

Xu Xinger spit out her tongue and was slightly sad after laughing. Mrs. Mrs. Xu is a person who has lived a hard life. Although she occasionally says that she will let Xu Laosi study as an official, and she can also be a wife in the future, it is even more unexpected for a special servant to serve her. Perhaps in her heart, her children can talk about a good marriage. It is already the most heartfelt day for her daughter-in-law to have a few grandchildren to inherit the incense, and the family can eat and wear without worrying about food and clothing.

Every time she thinks of the topic of livelihood, Xu Xinger feels that her heart is sinking. Although she lives a warm and harmonious life in poverty, will she continue to be so poor in the future? Even if I can stand poverty, what about the younger brothers and sisters below? Thinking of Ye's illness again, she felt that the burden on her shoulders was heavy and heavy, which made her breathless.

Even in modern times, heart disease is a stubborn disease that is difficult to cure. Ye will have to see a doctor and take medicine in the future, and if her living environment can be improved, it will naturally be more beneficial to her disease.

When she thought of this, she couldn't sit still again. She had already forgotten what she had said before, thought about the mountain road she remembered these days, and figured out where to go up the mountain and where to collect medicine tomorrow.

"Fourth uncle, I'll go back first. You read the book!" Xu Xinger finally had to stimulate Xu Laoshi to say a word. Looking at him grinning behind her, she suddenly sprinkled a series of laughter.

"Xing'er, what's the matter laughing so happily?" Brother Cheng came back from the ground with a hoe. He happened to see Xu Xinger walking and smiling secretly. He quickly took a few steps to catch up with her and asked.

"Just now, a matchmaker came to my fourth uncle to kiss me, but she asked my fourth uncle to marry me. My milk didn't agree and asked my fourth uncle to study hard. I must come back from the exam!" Xu Xinger smiled and said, "You didn't see my fourth uncle's bitter face."

"Bitter gourd? What is that?" Brother Cheng asked strangely, "Are there any bitter melons?" What does it look like?"

Xu Xinger was speechless and didn't know how to explain it, so she had to say vaguely, "What bitter gourd? You heard it wrong. I'm talking about the bitter face.

Brother Cheng didn't delve into it. He said excitedly, "I haven't seen you for days. I went to your house yesterday. I wanted to cover the fish with you, but my aunt said that you went up the mountain, and then I didn't go. Are you free tomorrow? Shall we cover the fish together?"

Xu Xinger shook her head and said, "No, I have to go up the mountain tomorrow."

"Why have you been running to the mountain every day recently?" Brother Cheng scratched his head and asked, "Go to collect medicine?" I saw a lot of medicinal herbs in your yard.

"Yes, collect more and sell money when we go to the market in two days." Xu Xinger calculated that there were still four or five days to go to the market, and she became more and more determined that she could not waste time. Although she was not accompanied by mountains tomorrow, as long as she did not go to the deep mountains, she would be fine. She went to the sunny slope where Shanzi had just taken her a few days ago, and the smooth road there was not difficult to walk...< /P>

"Yesterday, Brother Li, who was at the head of the village, took the pillars and Erga from the village to cover the fish. He said that he had got a lot of small fish. It was delicious to go home and eat it with sauce. My mother always said that she would eat fish to mend her body. My aunt hasn't been in good health recently. I thought about asking you to go together and get some fish for my aunt to eat, but I didn't find you. It's boring for me to go by myself..." Brother Cheng said for a long time and didn't see Xu Xinger respond. He looked up and saw her staring at the direction of the forest. Her eyes were blank and didn't know for a long time. What did you think about? Then he raised his voice and said, "Xing'er, Xing'er? Did you hear me?"

"Ah, what are you talking about?" Xu Xinger's mind just now was not here at all, and she looked at Cheng Geer innocently.

"I mean..." Brother Cheng said half of his words, but he still didn't repeat it any more. He shook his head and asked, "I didn't say anything, just gossip. Is your aunt better these two days?"

"Thank you for always thinking about it." Xu Xinger smiled sweetly, "My mother's body has indeed improved recently, but in the end, her foundation is still weak. The doctor said that she should take care of herself slowly, which is not a matter of urgency."

"If there is anything you can do to help, you can come and say hello. Our neighbors live there, and my mother and aunt are so good. We grew up together. If there is anything, don't be polite." Brother Cheng followed Xu Xinger's door and looked at her eagerly, as if waiting for her to invite herself into the house.

Xu Xinger didn't think of this at all. Seeing that the sun was already sinking, she quickly waved her hand and said, "It's not early to go home. It's time to eat now. I'll go home to cook first. I won't let my father come back and have dinner." After saying that, he ran into the house by himself.

"Xing'er..." Cheng Ge's voice lowered in an instant, sighed before turning home.

After dinner, Xu Xinger picked up the lock and was patted on the shoulder by him. Suddenly, she grinned with pain. Then she remembered that there was a wound from the back basket on her shoulder. She put the lock back into the car and rubbed it in front of Ye and asked her to help apply medicine.

Ye lifted Xu Xinger's clothes and saw that her daughter's young shoulders were strangled into blue and purple. In serious cases, the skin had been worn out, revealing the light pink tender meat below, and some scabbed blood stains. She was so distressed that she didn't know what to do. She reached out and dared not touch it casually. Her nose was sore for a while. , quickly take out the medicine left by Shanzi before and smash it, and slowly apply it to her shoulder.

Maybe the Wu family has been running to collect medicine for generations, and there are always some of their own unique formulas for external injuries. Xu Xinger always feels that every time she is injured, the medicine left by Shanzi is very comfortable to apply. The wound only feels a chill, which will not hurt like many wounds, but it will be relieved very quickly. It hurts.

Ye cut two clean cotton cloths and covered them on the medicine paste, so she carefully tied Xu Xinger's clothes again. Although she had known that it was hard to run mountains for a long time, she just listened to others and had never seen it so intuitively, not to mention that her child must be more careful. It hurts a little. When I think of her young age, I always want not to let her go to the mountain to collect medicine, but it is not easy to say this.

Not to mention how rare it is to follow the Wu family to pick medicine, I just want to talk about the current situation of the family. If it hadn't been for Xu Xinger, who often went up the mountain to sell some change to make up for it, and only relied on the grain and vegetables grown by her hometown, she really couldn't afford to feed so many mouths.

So Ye opened her mouth several times and finally didn't say that sentence. She didn't feel good. She turned her head and saw Xu Xinger's back basket on the edge of the kang, reached out and hooked her shoulder straps. After thinking for a while, she took out a few pieces of cloth of about the same size from the needle basket, and turned out some of last year's leftovers from the kang piano. The old cotton was flattened on the top of the cloth little by little, and soon it was spread into two long strips of cotton pads.

"Xing'er?" Ye raised his voice.

Xu Xinger was washing dishes in the stove. Hearing the sound, she tied her hands, opened the curtain above her head, and leaned in and asked, "Mom, what's the matter?"

Ye Shi held the cotton pad in one hand and carried the back basket in the other, and said without raising his head, "Come here and I'll measure it."

"Oh, this is good. Why didn't I remember it!" Xu Xinger saw Ye's intention at a glance and went into the room and said, "It's still my mother's brain is bright and her hands are very clever. If I sew it myself, I'm afraid it will be like a duck intestine."

Hearing this, Ye burst out laughing and nodded her forehead angrily, but her eyes were full of doting and said, "How dare you say that you know how to run out all day long. When will you sit down and touch the needle and thread?"

With that, he asked Xu Xinger to carry the back basket, roughly determined the position of the sewing cotton pad, and then picked up the back basket and put it on the edge of the kang. The hand flew the needle and threaded it. Soon, he sewed one side and asked Xu Xinger to come over and try it again. Seeing that the position was just in the injured position of the shoulder, the other side was also sewn up. .

Xu Xinger couldn't wait to take it and put it on her back again. She took a few steps to feel it, raised her hand and leaned on the back of her waist and said to Ye, "Mom, if only I could give me a waist cushion here. This place stood upright and couldn't bear it. If I can work hard, I would bow my back, and I was really tired and hurt my back."

"What kind of waist does the child have?" Ye said this habitually, but still figured out how to make a waist cushion to be more comfortable. He pulled Xu Xinger in front of him, looked left and right for a long time, and then measured the gap between the back basket and her waist. After thinking about it for a long time, he sewed a thin pillow-like object on both sides of cloth and cotton and stuffed it in. Let her try it or not.

Xu Xinger felt it and didn't feel much about the empty basket, so she ran out to install a few sticks of wood, twisted her waist and said, "It's still a little thinner. If only it could be thicker..." She touched her chin and turned around, walked back and forth a few steps, and frowned, "I think the cotton pad is a little too soft, but it's still not too much. It's hard..."

Ye had no idea when he heard the words. He thought for a long time. If the thickness is not enough, he can floc cotton, but what should he do if it is too soft?

"Would you like to add a piece of wood to it?" Xu Xinger was inspired to see Xu Laosan chop wood.