Don't panic when fleeing the famine, the peasant girl is busy farming

Chapter 4

Jiang Erya came out of the portable manor and jumped into the paddy field of Lao Jiang's house.

She pulled out a seedling every few steps, and said to herself as she pulled out: "One family doesn't talk about two families, but we are also a member of Lao Jiang's family. Pulling out a few seedlings in your own house is not considered stealing. Right?
Besides, if these seedlings are planted in the fields, they might as well be planted in my portable manor. The manor grows fast and there is absolutely no shortage of water..."

Old Jiangtou and Mrs. Jiang didn't know what Jiang Erya was doing at this time. If they knew, they would probably go crazy given their nature of either taking advantage or losing.

However, the current state of Old Jiangtou and Mrs. Jiang is almost crazy.

Because Jiang Erniu had been unconscious since he was carried home from the Qingjiang River, Old Jiang was counting on Jiang Erniu to work after he recovered from his injury, so he had to hire a doctor from the town to treat Jiang Erniu.

But the doctor said, Jiang Erniu's situation, even if the doctor from the capital came, it wouldn't help.I can only hang my life with ginseng. Whether I wake up or not depends on God's will.

And ginseng, the cheapest kind, cost ten taels of silver each.

When Old Jiangtou and Mrs. Jiang heard this, they immediately jumped up.

What?Buy ginseng for ten taels of silver for Jiang Erniu?What are you kidding?

What is the concept of ten taels of silver?
One mu of high-quality paddy fields in Xichang County produces three shi of grain, and one shi of grain can only be sold for five hundred yuan, which is half a tael of silver.

For an ordinary family, the family has a field of six or seven acres that reaches the sky.

Ten taels of silver is the total output of an ordinary family's field for a year.The taxation of the Daqing Kingdom is heavy, and the ten taels of silver, after paying the grain tax and various miscellaneous taxes, probably only three or four taels are left.

Those who don't count can barely survive next year's autumn harvest by relying on these three or four.

Those who are successful can dig here and there, and after a year, they can only save half a tael at most.It takes at least 20 years to save enough taels of silver.

Although Lao Jiang's family has 28 acres of high-quality paddy fields and is the richest family in Xinglin Village except Lizheng's family, but if you want Lao Jiangtou and Mrs. Jiang to spend ten taels of silver to buy ginseng for Jiang Erniu to hang his life, then It's a dream!

Mrs. Jiang counted a dozen copper coins and sent the doctor away: "He didn't crawl out of my stomach, why should I buy him that expensive ginseng? I have never smelled what ginseng smells like."

Mrs. Jiang was stimulated by the price of ginseng, and she didn't care whether others would gossip about her. Before the doctor had gone far, she rushed to Jiang Erniu's side, pointed at the unconscious Jiang Erniu and started cursing.

"It cost me more than a dozen copper coins, you debt collector!

People from the two villages fought together, no one else was injured, only you and Erya were injured, and Erya was able to ride the waterwheel with a bloody hole, you are a big man, why can't you lie down and get up Woolen cloth?

You are a piece of trash!

I still want to eat ginseng that costs ten taels of silver, hum, you are beautiful!

You have been pulled up by shit and pee, and you are counting on you to do some work for the family. Fortunately, you have not worked for a few years, and you are lying here.

It's my fault!
Doesn't your uncle often praise you for being sensible?

If you are really sensible, get up quickly, the work in the field is still waiting for you to do.

If you really can't get up, die quickly and give everyone a good time. "

Although Jiang Erniu couldn't open his eyes or move, his mind was clear and he could hear nearby voices.

He was not surprised that Mrs. Jiang would say such a thing.

He knew that Old Jiangtou and Mrs. Jiang were not his real parents.

As long as he could remember, Old Jiangtou had told him that Old Jiangtou was his uncle and Mrs. Jiang was his aunt.He is the son of Lao Jiangtou's sister.

Back then, his own father ventured to the tiger gorge to gather medicine, accidentally slipped and fell, and failed to get out of the tiger gorge before dark, and was eaten by the tiger that came out to look for food at night, leaving only half of his body.

His mother, who was pregnant with him for more than eight months, insisted on going to collect his father's body in person, but was frightened by the bloody scene, and went directly with his father after giving birth to him prematurely.

His uncle took him home and adopted him like a son without his aunt's consent.

Every time my aunt was dissatisfied with him, she would point to his uncle's nose and yell at him for making his own decisions...

In order not to embarrass his uncle, Jiang Erniu has been very sensible since he was a child. He does the heavy and tiring work at home without being told, and he does it by himself.

No matter how much he missed school, he suppressed himself and never mentioned it to his uncle and aunt, for fear of adding to their burden.

Because my uncle said that the family provided two book bags for the elder brother and the third younger brother, which has already emptied the family, and I really can't afford it...

When the farming is busy, he uses himself as an animal, and when the farming is slack, he goes out to find odd jobs.

The first thing to do when you come back from odd jobs is to hand over all the money you earn to your uncle and aunt...

But no matter how "sensible" he was, my aunt was still dissatisfied and scolded him whenever she had the opportunity.

When he was a bachelor, he was the only one to scold.

Later, when he got married and had a wife and a daughter, his aunt scolded them as a family of three...

"Okay, don't say a few words!"

Jiang Erniu listened with pricked ears, it was the sound of his uncle scolding his aunt.

Although his uncle hadn't cried a single time since he was injured, his uncle's love for him was not fake.

In normal times, how dare uncle scold aunt?He must be worried and sad for himself.

Just as Jiang Erniu thought about it, he heard what Old Jiangtou said next, which made him unbelievable.

"Okay, don't say a few words - I'll push a cart, let's throw Er Niu to Tiger Canyon.

Dongliang is going to take the Tongsheng examination next month, and Er Niu died at home at this time, which is unlucky.

Throw him to Tiger Canyon, where his mother died.

Let him and his mother feed the beasts in the same place, maybe he can reunite with his mother underground.

Most importantly, in this way, we can save a sum of funeral expenses. "

Jiang Erniu felt that his brain was not enough, and he always loved his uncle, how could he say such a thing?

Hadn't his mother's bones been buried in the back mountain of Xinglin Village?How come it turned into feeding wild animals in Tiger Stream again?

Also, before he died, his uncle wanted to abandon his "corpse" just to save money for the burial?

Jiang Erniu felt sour in his heart.

He could understand that he was reluctant to spend ten taels of silver to buy him ginseng to hang himself. After all, the doctor said that even if he bought ginseng, he might not be able to wake up.

But a thin-skinned coffin was only [-] yuan, and he kept saying that he loved him and pity his uncle, but he was reluctant to spend even [-] yuan on him.

In the past 20 years, he has earned more than 28 yuan for Lao Jiang's family.Among other things, the [-] mu of paddy fields of Shan Laojiang's family were taken care of by the family of three in their second bedroom, and the rest of Lao Jiang's family had never touched it.

Jiang Erniu couldn't open his eyes, couldn't speak, and couldn't even move his fingers.With Lin Xiuxiu's cries, he was carried and thrown onto the cart by Old Jiangtou and Mrs. Jiang.

(End of this chapter)