Old Mrs. Lin ate her meal calmly, treating Old Man Lin's complaints as just a side dish.

Mr. Lin, who had not received a response, just muttered for a while and then stopped.

Oh, I feel melancholy!

……

Tick

Tick

Tick

Lin Shiyu touched her wet forehead, looked up and shouted:

"Mom, there's a water leak!"

The roof of the Lin family's house was built with thatch. It was fine when the rain was light, but when the rain got heavier, it started to leak in unexpected places.

Lin Shiyu, who was playing in her little bed, never expected that rain would drip directly on her head. At first she thought it was an illusion.

"Hurry up and move the quilt and clothes on your bed to the big bed. Mother will go get the basin." Liu gave the order as she walked out.

"Mom, there's water leaking near the big bed too." Lin Boyu said hurriedly as he looked at his mother's disappearing back.

"Brother Yu, please move the quilt aside first. Mom will be right back." Liu responded to him without even pausing.

The brother and sister carried quilts and clothes of different sizes and hurried to find a place where there was no leak.

Liu went out and went straight to the kitchen.

There was only one wooden basin allocated to the family, which was not enough.

She had to go to the kitchen and get the barrel and bowls.

"Sister-in-law, your house is leaking too?" Liu asked as she saw Sun as soon as she came in.

"Yes!" Sun quickly took the bowl that was assigned to her room and said in a low voice: "Second brother is really a jerk. He even messed up the roof of his own house."

No wonder Sun, who usually has a good temper, complained.

The Lin family repairs the roof every year, and the house has never leaked in all the years she has been married into the family.

This year, Lin Anxiang didn't want to work in the fields, so he took the initiative to take over this job. Who knew the result would be like this.

Liu thought the same in her heart, so she nodded.

After saying hello to Sun, she followed her example and took the bowl that was allocated to her family and went straight back to her room.

When she came back, Lin Shiyu and Lin Boyu had already piled the quilts and clothes on the side of the bed where the rain was not leaking.

"Mom, bring it here quickly, the rain is seeping in here."

Lin Boyu greeted anxiously.

Upon hearing this, Liu hurried over with the basin and bowl.

After a busy period, basins and bowls were placed in the leaking places in the third room.

"It's just been laid, so it might leak for a while."

Lin Anru came in with wet hair and said to his wife and children.

He had just run to the roof in the rain and re-laid some straw on the leaking area.

When Liu saw him come in, she immediately handed him a dry cloth:

"Hurry up and dry yourself, or you'll catch a cold."

Lin Anru took the dry cloth in his hand naturally: "I don't know when the sky will clear up. It's so dark that I can't do anything."

He was also thinking about going to the county town to complete the book copying task in the next two days.

The Lin family's house, or the houses in this village are basically short, with small windows. The lighting is poor at ordinary times. When the weather is bad, staying in the house is no different from staying in the dark.

"Then light the lamp!"

While Liu was speaking, the oil lamp had already been lit.

Not only that, she lit one, then two more.

She smiled and said, "It won't hurt my eyes if it's brighter."

Ordinary families would not be willing to light an oil lamp once a year, and some families didn’t even have an oil lamp.

This thing is a rare thing in the village, and it is of little use to the villagers.

But in Liu's mind, no matter how precious something is, if it is not used, it is useless.

"All this money is burned at once, so you better hurry up and save some money." Liu teased her husband.

It was true that she felt sorry for the money, but she also truly wanted her husband to feel at ease.

Lin Anru didn't say much and just started copying.

"Yujie, don't stare at the light, it hurts your eyes." Liu walked over and took her away: "While we have time, mother will teach you and your brother how to read today, how about it?"

Lin Shiyu still stared at the light: "Mom, that wick..."

"That was at the edge of the village. If you want, mom will take you there later. But I may not be able to extract the core now."

"Then remember to take me there when the time comes!" Lin Shiyu thought about it.

The best season to pick rush is autumn. It’s only spring now, so there’s no need to rush.

"What's wrong? Don't tell me this is also a herb?!" Liu asked casually.

Lin Shiyu nodded.

Liu: ...

So in my daughter's mind, all flowers and plants are herbs.

Liu didn't take Lin Shiyu's words seriously at all. She just regarded the herbs she had picked with great difficulty as playing with her daughter.

"Come, let's recognize the words in this book today."

Liu found a tattered book from somewhere and asked the two children to sit around the oil lamp.

"Bo Yu, the elder brother comes first. Read the characters you learned before."

Lin Boyu was ready for battle, his waist straightened subconsciously: "Four Gentlemen Decoction of Harmony and Righteousness, Ginseng and Atractylodes..."

"Participation..."

"Mom, I don't know the following two words." Lin Boyu lowered his head and glanced at his mother.

Liu: "Of course not..."

Because you haven't even learned these few words yet, your last words were interrupted by a soft child's voice.

"Poria cocos and licorice ratio."

Both Liu and Lin Boyu looked at Lin Shiyu in surprise.

"It is intended to use the name of Xiachen as Liujun, which can eliminate phlegm, replenish qi and treat yang deficiency. Remove the name of Banxia as Yidong, or add Xiangsha as Weihanshi."

Lin Shiyu ignored the looks from her mother and brother, and finished reciting the "Four Gentlemen Decoction" which was engraved in her bones.

She recalled her previous life, when she could speak fluently and began to recite various knowledge of Chinese medicine under the "stick" of her grandfather.

She was not an obedient person when she was a child. Whatever her grandfather asked her to do, she would do the opposite, often making her grandfather very angry.

That was something that happened in the previous life, but at this moment, Lin Shiyu felt that these scenes happened just yesterday and were still vivid in her mind.

“Wow…how amazing!”

Lin Boyu’s eyes are full of stars. His sister is so awesome.

But after a while his eyes dimmed. He thought that his sister had learned the words that his brother couldn't even learn. He was such a failure. This brother should be ashamed!

"Sister Yu is awesome." Liu also praised her sincerely.

Even Lin Anru, who was busy copying books, looked up at her.

"Sister, how come you can write so many words?" Lin Boyu really wanted to know.

You should know that in Yamada Village, he ranks fourth in the number of characters he knows, except for his parents and the village chief.

He didn't show anything on the surface, but deep down he was very proud of his knowledge.

Who would have thought that my younger sister, who had just returned and usually didn't show much talent, actually knew more words than I did.

After hearing Lin Boyu's words, Lin Shiyu did not answer immediately, but looked at the book in Liu's hand for a long time without saying a word.

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