The moon was at its zenith when Meng Yunshu suddenly woke up and sat up from the bed. He forgot something today and it turned out that he forgot to buy goods. There was only one chance to buy goods a day, so he had to seize it.

Thinking of this, he flashed into the store. After buying goods, he did not put them on the shelves, but directly stored them in the warehouse. He discovered this by accident. Once he put a pack of instant noodles in it and forgot about it. He didn’t see it until he was looking for seeds in the warehouse. He thought it past the shelf life, but who would have thought that it was still within the shelf life when he took it out. This allowed him to seize the loophole of the system.

This time, the goods were directly put into the warehouse. The only bad thing was that the storage capacity of the warehouse was limited, and the restrictions on the goods coming in from the system mall were even greater. For example, he could put all the fruits grown on the farm in, but he could only put in three-fifths of the goods, and the rest could only be placed on the shelves.

 With the idea that he was already here, Meng Yunshu turned around and went to the farm. After watering all the crops, he came to the pond. The fish fry he put in before had grown up, but he didn’t have time to fish them out. The system showed that these fish already had fish eggs. Now he wanted to do business, so fish balls were indispensable. After thinking about it, sustainable development was better than killing them all. In this case, he could only buy fish from the village.

Fortunately, there were still a lot of lotus roots, so he didn’t have to spend any more money.

Coming out of the store, Meng Yunshu pulled the quilt under his chin, and stared at the dark roof. He calculated the money he spent on business in his mind. This calculation made him completely unable to sleep. He tossed and turned for half a night before he fell asleep in a daze.

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The next morning, before dawn, Meng Yunshu was still dazed when Yu Jinhuai called him up. His eyes were glued together and he couldn’t open them. The warm quilt wrapped him up, and he really didn’t want to get up and feel the cold winter wind.

“Ah Yun, Ah Yun, it’s time to get up.” Yu Jinhuai sat up and pulled open the curtain. The dim light shone in from the window. He gently shook Meng Yunshu’s body. In the dim light, he saw Meng Yunshu’s slightly wrinkled brows and straightened mouth. It looked like he didn’t want to get up.

Yu Jinhuai looked at him helplessly. He thought that someone had promised him yesterday that he would get up early, and now seeing him being lazy in bed, he couldn’t help but laugh. When he was about to continue calling the person, the door suddenly slammed loudly. The two wolfhounds sleeping in the main room got up sharply and ran out to bark at the door.

 “Huai boy, it’s me, Aunt Sun, I have something to talk to you about.” Hearing Aunt Sun’s anxious voice, Yu Jinhuai hurriedly put on his clothes and moved to the kang, leaning on his crutches to go out.

With the barking of dogs mixed with shouting, Meng Yunshu was so disturbed that he couldn’t sleep.

He lay in front of the window while putting on his clothes, opened a crack and looked at the door. He heard Aunt Sun’s sobbing and Yu Jinhuai’s comforting voice, which seemed to be related to Ming ger. He got dressed quicker and closed the window. When he left, he saw Yu Zhining had opened his eyes and comforted him in a low voice. He waited until he calmed down before going out.

Walking out of the hall, he was blown by the cold wind. Meng Yunshu shrank his neck and ran to the door quickly. He looked out and saw Aunt Sun knocking on Yu Jinyue’s door again.

 It was still dark, and there was a thick layer of frost on the ground and on the roofs. It looked like he had strayed into a white world. White mist rose from his mouth when he spoke, and he couldn’t see the person opposite him through the white mist.

 “Brother Huai, what happened to Ming?”

Yu Jinhuai frowned, his expression serious, and his tone mixed with worry, “This morning, Ming’er’s parents went to the capital to buy goods. When Ming got up, he couldn’t find his parents and made a fuss for them. Aunt Sun tried to coax him but it was useless. She was so angry that she beat him. She thought he was at peace, but when Aunt Sun made the egg custard and went to check, he was gone.”

“She searched the house inside and out, but couldn’t find him, so she came to our house to borrow Dahei and Daqing.” Yu Jinhuai saw him huddled up with his hands curled up in his sleeves. He reached out and touched him and found that his hands were as cold as a stone, and said with concern: “You go back first, I’ll take Daqing and Dahei to Aunt Sun’s house to smell Ming’er’s clothes.”

After hearing what he said, Meng Yunshu couldn’t help but sigh in his heart. He didn’t expect Ming’er to be so small and well-behaved on weekdays, but why did he get so angry when he got angry.

 “No, I’ll go find him. Your feet are inconvenient, so just stay at home. I’ll take them and look for Ming ger. It’s cold, the sooner we find the child, the sooner we can feel at ease.” Meng Yunshu was caught by his hand without noticing it. He struggled to get back to his senses but couldn’t get away. He had to let the man hold his hands to warm his hands with red ears and lowered his head to talk to him.

Yu Jinhuai looked down at his feet and regretted that he didn’t run away immediately when he saw the wild boar, but thought of killing the wild boar to add income to the family. Now, not only is it inconvenient for him to live, but he can’t even accompany Ah Yun to the town.

Yu Jinhuai paused for a while and responded softly, “Mm.”

The water on the stove was still warm. Meng Yunshu quickly washed his face and took Daqing and Dahei to Aunt Sun’s house. When he arrived, there were many people in Aunt Sun’s house, and many neighbors got up to help her find Ming ger.

 Meng Yunshu was stunned to see so many people. He led two wolfhounds to find Aunt Sun in the crowd. He let the villagers look at him curiously, walked over stiffly and let the two dogs sniff his clothes, and left under the hot eyes of the crowd.

He didn’t often go out of the Yu family house, so the villagers were very curious about him.

After leaving Sun’s house, Meng Yunshu breathed a sigh of relief. He rubbed his chest and thought about how to do business in the future with his temper. After struggling for a long time, he only wanted to come up with one trick, that is, let Yu Jinyue shout and he cooked. It’s not that he couldn’t lose face, but he was afraid of communicating with strangers.

Daqing and Dahei were smelling all the way. Meng Yunshu was led forward by them. He could still hear the voices calling Ming ger on the way. He was about to reach the foot of Daqing Mountain when Meng Yunshu suddenly came back to his senses and looked up at the mountain not far away.

Could it be that he went into the mountain? It shouldn’t be. Ming ger is still young and it’s impossible for him to go to the mountain.

 It was not until Daqing and the others took him to the bamboo forest that Meng Yunshu breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he did not go to the mountains.

It was already dawn, but the bamboo forest was covered by bamboo leaves and was a little darker than outside.

 “Ming ger.” Meng Yunshu walked and called until he found Sun Ming sleeping under a big rock under the guidance of Daqing. At this time, his cheeks were red and his mouth was pale. Hearing his voice, he opened his red and swollen eyes, opened his arms to him, and said in a hoarse voice: “Uncle, I have a headache.”

Meng Yunshu was so angry that he held him in his arms and touched him. Ming ger’s forehead was burning hot, and his hand was also hot. It was obvious that he had caught a cold. Seeing that he was about to be delirious with fever, Meng Yunshu hurriedly exchanged anti-inflammatory medicine and ensured that it was safe and Ming ger would not be allergic to it. Then he held him and sat on the rock, took out a box of milk, coaxed him to drink a few sips to fill his stomach, and then gave him half of the anti-inflammatory medicine.

It was cold in the bamboo forest, and Sun Ming was wearing thin clothes. Meng Yunshu gritted his teeth, took off his coat, wrapped him up, and hurried out. He had asked Daqing to go back and call for help, and Dahei was guarding them. They had not walked a short distance when Yu Jinyue and Aunt Sun ran over.

He saw that Sun Ming was wrapped in his clothes. His face was pale and his lips were purple, Yu Jinyue asked anxiously: “Brother-in-law, how are you?”

“I’m fine.” Meng Yunshu said with a smile. He could still bear this little cold. Seeing Aunt Sun coming over with clothes, he hurriedly said: “Aunt, Ming ger has a fever, take him to see Doctor Ming.”

Aunt Sun looked at him gratefully. She changed Sun Ming into the clothes she brought, and urged Meng Yunshu to put on his own clothes, and then left with Yu Jinyue’s company.

“Brother-in-law, remember to drink a bowl of ginger water.”

“I know.” Meng Yunshu replied with his arms folded. He was afraid that he would catch a cold, so he exchanged cold medicine and drank it with mineral water.

Back at the Yu family house, Yu Zhining had already woken up. The chimney of the kitchen was rising with curling green smoke. Yu Jinhuai was sitting in front of the stove and cooking multi-grain porridge.

He heard Yu Jinyue say that Ah Yun had wrapped Ming ger in his clothes. The stove in the main room had already boiled ginger water, just waiting for Meng Yunshu to come back and drink it. He was afraid that he would dislike the pungent taste of ginger, so he asked Yu Zhining to borrow brown sugar from next door.

 Meng Yunshu sat in the kitchen with a glass of brown sugar ginger water and looked at Yu Jinhuai who was seriously burning the fire. The warm firelight reflected on his face, softening his cold and hard face. He frowned and took a sip. After the warm ginger and brown sugar water went down his throat, his body and heart warmed up for a while.

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After breakfast, Aunt Sun heard that Meng Yunshu wanted to do business with carrots, so she sent a small basket and took the responsibility of harvesting vegetables on herself. She was afraid that she would be too busy to take care of Ming ger, so she specially introduced someone to Meng Yunshu. She was the wife of the village chief. She was upright and had prestige in the village. She was a trustworthy person. Meng Yunshu agreed. He could feel at ease with one more person to help him, but it would cost more. Thinking of this, Meng Yunshu began to have a headache.

After sending Aunt Sun away, he planned to go to the town, but someone came to his house again, and he couldn’t leave for a while.

 Meng Yunshu sat on the stool and murmured with a wry smile. Today’s trip to the town was full of twists and turns.