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Chapter 26: Artemisia argyi leaves are fragrant (1)

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    "Xiao Ai, this is mugwort leaf powder. It's the best for repelling mosquitoes!" Grandma took out a sachet from her bosom and handed it to Yuan Xiaoai.

    "It's mugwort leaf again, can't grandma give me something else? My house has piles of mugwort leaf sachets!"

    Putting it in her pocket, Yuan Xiaoai looked at her grandma and thought for a while, and finally asked what she was holding back in her heart.

    "Grandma, why do you like making mugwort sachets so much?" When talking about "Mugwort sachets", she deliberately emphasized her accent, hoping that grandma could hear the meaning of the words.

    Grandma smiled wrinkledly, she didn't seem to understand the meaning of the words, and asked instead: "Doesn't Xiaoai like Ai Ye?"

    Xiao Ai pouted and nodded in response: "I just think it's useless, and I don't carry so many sachets. Will it grow mold?"

    Grandma's smile froze, as if she heard something she didn't like, she sighed lightly, and there seemed to be a few more wrinkles on her face, she picked up a sachet in the basket, looked at it deeply and said.

    "There is a scent on the leaves of mugwort, which was liked by grandma and your dead grandfather. I remember that when our family was poor and couldn't afford food or drink, your grandfather and I went to the roadside every day to dig some wild vegetables to eat.  Ai, it is one of the wild vegetables"

    Grandma was talking, as if recalling the scene at that time. Although the experience was bitter, she had a smile on her mouth and said it in a relaxed manner, as if she was describing something.

    "Is it because of this that you often make mugwort sachets?" Yuan Xiaoai couldn't help asking after listening to grandma's narration.

    Grandma touched her cheek with a smile, shook her head and said: "Of course not, before your grandpa and I got married, your grandpa liked me and came to pursue me. It was because his family was poor. I was afraid of being wronged when I married in, and I didn't want to  Even my parents objected to getting married, but your grandfather didn't give up.

    "He was really stupid. It was very hot in summer, and there were no insecticides or mosquito coils at home. He just got some wormwood every day, ground it into powder and put it at our door, but he never told us, and we didn't  Don't know about it."

    Grandma said, and said with a smile: "Do you know where the wormwood powder that your grandfather puts on our door every time is gone?"

    Yuan Xiaoai shook her head, and then asked suspiciously: "Didn't she be taken home by grandma?"

    Grandma smiled and shook her head: "No, he put it at the door of our house without even knocking on the door. How could we know that there is mugwort leaf powder at the door."

    "Ah?" Yuan Xiaoai's eyes widened, and she asked curiously, "Did someone else take that?"

    The grandma shook her head, took Yuan Xiaoai's hand and said: "It was swallowed by the neighbor's dog, and when the dog swallowed the powdered mugwort, it would sometimes tear the outer skin, so I could always see powdered mugwort leaves at my door.  "

    The grandma was talking happily, and she stroked the back of Yuan Xiaoai's hand with wrinkled hands: "I saw it once, and I was very puzzled, thinking whose child this is, who made some grass powder and sprinkled it everywhere.  It will still be the land, and sometimes the powdered mugwort leaves will disappear when the wind blows, so I only found it a few times and didn't pay attention to it."

    Yuan Xiaoai opened her eyes wide and asked, "Did you find out later?"

    "No, it's the neighbor's dog, who often lies on our doorstep, and I found it, haha" (Remember the website URL: www.hlnovel.com
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