Scholar's Sweetheart

Perhaps it was because she was too excited, but Aunt Xie had just arrived.

Soong Xintong rubbed the red smears on her face that she had left on the floor during her morning sleep before pulling Aunt Xie to sit at the Eight Immortals table in the living room. "Aunt Xie, please sit for a moment." He then poured her a bowl of tea brewed with honeysuckle and pushed it in front of her. "Aunt, have some tea."

Even though the way Xintong poured the tea was no different from other people, but Aunt Xie still thought that Xintong looked really good when she made it. "It's because Aunt was too agitated and forgot the time, which disturbed your nap time."

"I just woke up." Soong Xintong had already slept for less than an hour. She had already slept enough. "Aunt, wait for me. I'll go wash my face first."

"Alright."

Soong Xintong washed her face with cold water, removing all the sleepiness from her body before returning to the living room.

Aunt Xie had already finished her bowl of honeysuckle tea, "Xintong, what tea is this? There's the fragrance of the flowers, and it's all because of the taste. "

"Here are the honeysuckle flowers. They are good for the mountain. I'll bring my aunt to pick some when we get back up the mountain." When Soong Xintong passed by the medicine store, she saw someone take out a Silver Flower to sell. It was probably just that Aunt Xie and the others did not recognize it, "This flower can spread heat and cleanse the blood poison. There are some recipes that also have this kind of medicine, it should be called honeysuckle, and it's the most suitable for summer."

"Oh, honeysuckle, I've heard about it before. So it looks like this. I've never heard of it before. Xintong, you know a lot." Aunt Xie-er's eyes lit up as she saw the opportunity, "Then we can also pick these flowers to sell at the medicine store. Xintong, do you know any other herbs?"

Soong Xintong shook her head. "I don't know him. It was just a coincidence that I knew that the honeysuckle looked like this."

Aunt Xie was a little disappointed, but she soon got over it again, "The place where you, Uncle Xie, and the others worked is very hot, so it's okay to drink this kind of tea, right?"

"I can." Soong Xintong nodded. "But in summer, it has to be green bean soup."

"That's true." Aunt Xie fanned herself with her fan. "It's a hot day. I don't know when it will rain, but it will cool down a little when it rains."

Soong Xintong drank her tea and said, "I don't want it to rain."

"Why?" Aunt Xie was puzzled.

Soong Xintong pointed at the leaking roof.

Aunt Xie looked up at the roof and could see the sky through the thatched roof.

"If it's going to rain, it'll have to wait until I get someone to fix the roof."

"It's not that hard. After two days, Uncle Xie will be done with his work, so I'll let him do it for you. You don't even have a roof of four rooms, you just need half a day to repair it."

"Then I'll be troubling Uncle Xie."

"What's so troublesome about that? I already said that I would help your family clean up the roof, but I haven't had the time to do it."

"It's Aunt Xie'er."

The two of them carried their baskets and walked towards the back of the mountain. Following the route they remembered, they passed through the lush green mountain forest and arrived at a lush grassland. "Aunt, this is the place."

Aunt Xie looked at the lush and verdant grasses growing by the stream, her mouth agape in astonishment. "These are all?"

"No, this is it." Soong Xintong pointed at a piece of wetland that had been dug, "It should be like this flower with spikes, its leaves are a bit round and its roots are all white. Soong Xintong pointed at a piece of wetland that had been dug," It should be like this flower with spikes, its leaves are a bit round and its roots are all white.

"I understand, I understand." Aunt Xie looked at Leaves, who was thrown aside by Soong Xintong earlier. "We'll have to dig a hole and bury all of this. It won't be good if someone else finds out."

Soong Xintong nodded in agreement. "Aunt is still the most considerate one."

"Xintong, I'll start digging then." Aunt Xie took off her shoes and stood in the wetland. She skillfully brandished her hoe to dig. In less than half an hour, she dug up a large amount of water. "This is too easy to dig. It's even easier than gathering mushrooms."

"That's right, this type of ear root can be found everywhere. There should be it by the river, in the fields, or on the edge of the farmlands." Soong Xintong said.

"I really didn't notice it before. I should have noticed when I went to the fields later."

Soong Xintong looked at Aunt Xie's excited expression, hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help but remind her, "Aunt, this mountain looks good, it's long and round and looks good, so it's worth the price."

Aunt Xie was no fool, and it didn't take her long to understand. "You're right. This mountain is the best."

In less than an hour, both of them had already dug up a hundred Jin. Not only were they cleaned, but they also buried the leaves. This was a lot of effort compared to when they were digging alone.

"It's much easier with Aunt Xie." Soong Xintong carried the basket, which only weighed thirty to forty pounds, onto the stone and sat down to rest.

Aunt Xie washed her hands by the water's edge. "You're not bad either. You work really well."

Soong Xintong didn't reply to that. Actually, she still wanted to deal with it earlier, but Aunt Xie purposefully slowed down her pace. She didn't want to take too much advantage of it, thus forcefully extending the time to one hour.

When Aunt Xie came back, Soong Xintong pointed at a dense bush with honeysuckle vines wrapped around it. White or yellow honeysuckle flowers bloomed all over the branches, looking very pretty from afar. "Aunt Xie, there are honeysuckle flowers over there. I'll take you to pick them."

"This flower is quite fragrant, but it's also quite hard to find. I only found one after entering the back mountain so far away." Aunt Xie covered all the honeysuckle with her clothes and continued to dig into the forest.

"Yes, this is the second one I found in the back mountain." Soong Xintong put a handful of honeysuckle into Aunt Xie's pocket. "Maybe even deeper than that."

"Don't go into the mountains, there are big worms in there." Aunt Xie told Soong Xintong, "More than ten years ago, there were a few unscrupulous kids who went into the mountains. In the end, only one came out and died when they were sent to the infirmary. The village elders all say that it is very dangerous inside, even the agile hunters do not dare to easily enter. "

Soong Xintong thought that this was just a story to tease people, but she didn't expect it to be true. "Two baskets should weigh at least a hundred pounds, can you carry it by yourself? Do you want me to send you to the county?"

No need to send me there. This trip will take at least one day, I'll go to Senior Lee later and ask him to take me there in the morning. I should be able to carry around a hundred catties. Soong Xintong actually didn't have much of a background, but she could just ask someone to help her carry the road. If she really couldn't carry it, she could do it twice more.

"Then I'll take you to the village in the morning and spend a few coins to find a groom for you in the county," Aunt Xie said.

"Aunt, don't worry, I can do it." Soong Xintong nodded. She stood on her tiptoes to break off the flowers that bloomed beautifully on the top of the shrubs. "Aunt Xie, do you know that Scholar Lu's academy has opened up again?"

"I know. There are many families in the village that want to take advantage of their busy summer days to earn more money and send them to school after the August farmers' holiday. Wu Tie's family is kind and kind, and the overseer is only half of the other schools." Aunt Xie started talking more about the school, "Originally, I wasn't thankful for sending Goudan to the school, but now, with the method you provided, it should be enough for Goudan to study for a year."

"Big Treasure and Little Treasure should also be able to read. Do you want to send them over?"

"Yes." Soong Xintong nodded.

"That's true. All of you are like your mothers. You are all good-looking. You will definitely have great prospects in the future." Aunt Xie said sincerely.

Soong Xintong couldn't help but laugh. "Then Auntie will be happy to hear it. I hope the two of them will have some good fortune in the future."

After picking the honeysuckle flowers, the two of them went down the mountain and weighed the root of the broken ear. Aunt Xie had dug a total of eighty pounds, which was three hundred and twenty coins worth of money.

"Aunt, I'll give you your share tomorrow." Soong Xintong said.

"Alright." Aunt Xie was so happy that she couldn't stop grinning. It hadn't even been an hour and she had already earned three hundred and twenty gold coins. This was already enough for her child's father to do nine days of work.

"Aunt, take care!"