Chapter 203: A Letter From Home Is Worth a Thousand Gold

The letter was written by Su Qingmei when she first met Ma Mingwen and entered the governor's mansion. Reading of the performance

It took more than two months for it to reach Lü Bocheng's hands.

At that time, Su Qingmei heard Ma Mingwen say that he had met Lü Bocheng and Lü Bocheng had let him go. She was worried about what punishment he would receive.

Knowing that he was still alive, she asked Ma Mingwen to help her try to deliver the letter.

She wrote him a thick letter, describing her life after he left.

She opened a shop to do business, and later found out that she was pregnant, and then gave birth to Xiaobao... Because of some things, the family split up, and then Fengting Town recruited soldiers again, and she fled with her family...

Unexpectedly, the family was separated in the chaos of war. She and Xiaobao were first captured in a valley, recovered from their injuries and escaped, but were captured again in a mountain stronghold...

Later, they escaped and asked for help, and met Master Ma...

Su Qing'an mentioned some things about the Lu family in the letter, about Xiaobao, and said that he used the name he gave him, Lu Weiyang. He said that Xiaobao could walk and talk, and could call his mother and father.

He was very tough, lively, sensible, rarely cried, and looked very much like him...

He also drew a small portrait of Xiaobao, with his head slightly tilted. I don't know what happened to him, but he smiled so hard that his eyes almost squinted. He looked so cute.

Lu Bocheng held the letter tightly against his chest, buried his head in his legs, and burst into tears.

He cried like a child.

It scared Gou Wa hard.

Did the general cry?

The general actually cried!

Did something happen at home?

Why did he cry like this? He didn't cry when he was beaten with a hundred military sticks. He didn't cry when I applied medicine to him, and he shivered in pain.

Now he cried when he received a letter from home?

"General..."

"Qing'an, my wife. Xiaobao, my son..."

Su Qing'an didn't know that her letter would cause such a big reaction to Lu Bocheng. She only knew that after eating the food she cooked, a group of mountain children reacted very strongly.

Maybe children should be with children, Xiaobao is particularly hungry today.

Usually, Xiaobao eats with them, and Su Qing'an and others feed him. Sometimes the food is finished and sometimes there is leftovers, but he doesn't eat very well.

Today, a group of children sat together, and there were not enough chairs in the dining hall. Many children ate while standing with their bowls, but it didn't affect their appetite at all.

Seeing the older children eating by themselves, Xiaobao insisted on eating by himself.

Su Qing'an gave him a wooden spoon and a wooden bowl. He couldn't even hold the spoon steady. The little fat boy grabbed the spoon and rushed around in the rice bowl, then grabbed it and put it straight into his mouth...

He spilled it all over his clothes, but he didn't let Su Qing'an feed him.

He had to compete with the older children in eating. He held the rice spoon in one hand and the meat in the other, and his mouth was full of oil. Oil even flowed from the gaps between the little fat boy's fingers.

Su Qing'an despised him.

The children in the village usually cooked at home. Although they had no shortage of meat, they could only scoop out a few pieces from a large pot of vegetables. How could they cook a large pot of meat like Su Qing'an, and he was willing to add oil and various seasonings.

The children ate so deliciously.

Su Qing'an was afraid that they would be too full. She stood in the cafeteria and stared at them.

The children didn't leave after eating, anyway, the adults hadn't come back from the mountain yet. So they stayed to help Su Qing'an clean the table, peel bamboo shoots, and wash bamboo fungus.

Very sensible.

Su Qing'an originally planned to share bamboo fungus and bamboo shoots with the children and let them take them home, but they didn't expect that the children didn't want any of them. They said they would leave them to Qing'an and let her sell them for money.

"Aunt Su, can you exchange the money for us candy?"

"Do you want to eat candy?"

"Yes."

"We almost don't know what candy tastes like."

Su Qing'an was sad and distressed.

"That's fine. Stay here with Aunt Su. If you can't buy candy, I'll give you malt and make malt sugar for you, buy you white flour and make cakes for you."

"Okay, okay!"

"Then we'll look for it tomorrow!"

"I know there's a big bamboo forest on the mountain next door! There must be more bamboo shoots and bamboo fungus there!" The children talked in unison.

When it was getting dark, the women in the village came back carrying things on their backs. When the children saw their mothers and sisters coming back, they shouted to greet them.

Lu and Ruyi also came back with a smile on their faces. The mother and daughter carried big backpacks on their backs and held a large sack in their hands.

They were exhausted after climbing halfway up the mountain.

"So many?" Su Qing'an took it. She was very surprised.

"This is still a small amount. I heard from the people in the village that they came to the mountains late this year. If it were previous years, there would be a lot of mountain products." Lu said excitedly while panting.

"Miss, I'll go cook now." Ruyi was also very tired, but she looked better than her mother.

"No need. I've done it. You and your mother can wash up and go eat."

"Ah, Miss, you've done it? Why didn't you wait for us to come back? Is Xiaobao hungry?" Both of them looked at Xiaobao, fearing that the child was hungry.

"Not hungry, I'm full."

Xiaobao patted his bulging belly towards Ruyi and her daughter.

"Xiaobao, are you full? So good." If Xiaobao wasn't so dirty, Ruyi and Lu would have jumped on him and kissed him.

Su Qing'an took out all the things that Lu and Ruyi had found.

At a glance, there were quite a lot of varieties.

Walnuts, hazelnuts, chestnuts, black pine cones, pecans, various nuts, tea fruits, and some unknown wild fruits, and more are various mushrooms.

Lu and Ruyi didn't care about eating, and helped Su Qingmei to take care of the various mushrooms and spread them out to dry.

Before the pine cones were peeled for pine nuts, the mother and daughter picked up almost half a basket. That day, Su Qingmei said that eating nuts is good for the health of the elderly and children, and it nourishes the brain, so the mother and daughter picked nuts and wanted to save more for Xiaobao.

"Miss, there are many of these tea fruits. Do you mean that they can be used to extract oil?"

Su Qingmei nodded: "This camellia oil is a good thing. It can be used for cooking and smearing. It can heal sunburns and burns with just one smear, and it can nourish hair. It is also good for children to take, it can promote qi and relieve constipation, and it is even better for women after childbirth. If women can eat some tea oil during the confinement period, it will be beneficial to the recovery of the body."

"Wow, this thing is so good! Mother, let's pick some more tomorrow! When the oil is extracted, save it for Xiaobao."

When Lu heard this, she slapped her thigh: "Oh, I thought it was too heavy today, so I didn't pick much. I didn't expect this thing to be so good. Then tomorrow Today, Ruyi and I went to pick tea fruit. There are a lot of them on the mountain. No one knew that tea fruit could be used before, and a large area of ​​them grew in the mountain. No one picked them. "

Su Qing'an hesitated: "We don't have anything to press oil..."

Lu didn't care: "It's okay, Miss, we will pick them first and save them, and let Siyuan and others go to Renzhou City to have a look. People in a state need food and drink, so there can't be no place to press oil, right?"

Su Qing'an nodded: "Okay. Then when the sun comes out, we will move them out to dry them, and then peel the tea seeds. There is no rush. After a month or two, the oil yield will be higher."

Both mother and daughter nodded.

She said: "Miss, there are many good things in the mountains. In the past, no one understood or knew them. After Miss said it, even the tea fruit that no one wants is now a treasure."

Su Qing'an smiled. The mountains are full of treasures, but they are hidden in the mountains and no one knows them.

After everyone finishes the mountain, she will look for some valuable herbs in the mountains. The whole family needs food and drink, so they can't have no income.

The three of them packed up everything, and the Lu mother and daughter went to eat, while Su Qingmei took Xiaobao to peel pine cones.

There were half a basket of pine cones, but the pine tree was too high, and the mother and daughter didn't know how to climb the tree, so they just used a hook to pick some and picked up the ones that fell on the ground.