FSC [QT] Chapter 93.1

“Xiao Wu, you are back.”

Li Xu walked up to her and took the basket of herbs in her hand with heartache.

Before Yu Yan left, Xiao Wu was still a child with slow reactions due to premature birth. After Yu Yan left, Xiao Wu suddenly became smarter.

Although she was only three or four years old at that time, she was much smarter and more agile than some children who were eight or nine years old.

The villagers sighed that it might be a blessing in disguise because Yu Wu was stimulated too much.

Although the Li family had raised this child these years, strictly speaking, Li Shanchun and Li Xu had also benefited a lot from Yu Wu.

After recovering from the blow, Yu Wu often followed the older children in the village to the mountains. While others picked wild mushrooms and wild vegetables in the mountains, she picked some strange plants that the villagers had rarely seen before.

Those plants were not eaten after being brought back, but they were made into herbal medicines by Yu Wu using a strange method and taken to pharmacies in the town or county.

Because in order to get Yu Fucai’s medical treatment and medicine, Mrs. Yu secretly learned from the doctor several kinds of medicinal herbs that could be found in the local mountains and prepared them herself to reduce the expenses of buying medicine.

Therefore, everyone just thought that Yu Wu learned it at that time, and they did not have too many doubts.

Later, the people in the village got used to Yu Wu’s behavior of running up the mountain from time to time to study strange herbs.

Two years ago, Yu Wu dug up a wild ginseng in the mountain that was more than fifty years old and sold it for twenty taels of silver.

At that time, it triggered a craze among the villagers to go up the mountain. However, no one could have the same luck as Yu Wu, and the work in the fields required manual labor, so they gave up.

Over the years, in addition to the occasional big surprise, Ah Wu could earn three or four hundred coins a month by picking herbs every day, which was the same income as an adult man.

The Li family didn’t need to bear her expenses at all. On the contrary, Ah Wu was grateful and handed over the household allowance every month. Even if Li Xu was unwilling to accept it, she saved it all to give her a dowry after she got married.

Every time after selling herbs, Ah Wu would buy some cakes and clothes or go to the butcher in the village to buy a piece of meat. The living standard of the Li family rose rapidly because of Ah Wu’s arrival.

Now, in addition to collecting herbs herself, Ah Wu also taught some children in the village to identify some of the more precious and valuable herbs.

She also taught the villagers to grow some herbs that were in great demand in pharmacies, easy to grow, and could be sold at a high price.

Everyone sighed and said that if it weren’t for that stupid woman Mrs. Yu who pawned Yu Wu to a usurer for a ginseng, causing Yu Yan to sell himself to save his sister, the brother and sister would definitely be able to live a good life even without their parents, with mature and steady Yu Yan and smart and clever Yu Wu.

Just last year, Ah Wu paid off all the debts owed by Mrs. Yu. Previously, she got the deed that her brother had fingerprinted from the Village Chief and promised to pay off the debts on behalf of her parents.

Now the deed was placed in a small cloth bag around Ah Wu’s neck, which she never took off except when taking a bath. There were also three copper coins in the small cloth bag.

Whenever Ah Wu was sad, she would take out the copper coins and look at them carefully.

In the past eight years, except for a deed to pay off the debt, she had never added anything to her small cloth bag.

“T-this is your biological mother’s nanny. She is here specially to take you home this time.”

Li Xu was a country woman, but she could also see how exquisitely the people in front of her were dressed, especially the old woman in front of her.

She had two gold hairpins on her head, each of which was as thick as a little finger. One of the hairpins was also embedded with precious stones, which were big and bright.

Li Xu had never seen such a good thing in her life.

This was just a servant. If she were a master, how would she dress up?

In any case, Li Xu couldn’t imagine that the woman in front of her, whose hairpin might be worth all the belongings of their country folk, would lie to them because it was meaningless.

“Biological mother?”

Ah Wu repeated in a low voice. Just after the nanny spoke, she had already realized from her words that there seemed to be a problem with her life experience. She might not be Mrs. Yu’s child.

But if she was not Mrs. Yu’s child, did that mean that her brother was not her brother anymore?

Ah Wu felt that the world was malicious to her.

Before her brother left, she was completely in a daze and had very little waking time. Most of the time, she was like an ordinary child, even more naive and ignorant than children of the same age.

But Ah Wu vaguely felt that it shouldn’t be like this. She seemed to be a child who was reincarnated with some memories after drinking half a bowl of Meng Po soup.

This could also explain why some knowledge that she should not know would always inexplicably emerge in her mind.

For example, cooking, identifying medicinal materials, taking pulse, and treating illnesses…

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