Escape from the desert

Since the last little hen in the family made soup, Xiaodouzi has never gone to the field to cut wild vegetables. Now that he finally has a little chicken, he can't wait to go to the field to cut wild vegetables and put all these chickens and ducks on the ground. It's full and full, so when he grows up, he can eat big chicken legs again...

"Grandma! There are a lot of chicks and ducklings, I'm going to the field to cut wild vegetables to feed them!" His eyes lit up, and his little face was full of joy: "When the chickens grow up, Grandma can do it. After killing the soup, the small beans can eat big chicken legs again!"

Jiang Yan pursed her lips and smiled, leaned over and pinched his Fei Nuonuo's little face: "Let those two brothers over there... Little Stone and... Hammer, also go together." She remembered that Lin Gensheng's two sons were named This name is about the same age as Lin Feng, so a group of children can play together.

"Hammer, little rock, you two come here, take your brother to the field to cut wild vegetables, you two will do it, and my brother will let him play by himself." Lin Gensheng waved his hand, and the two muddy little guys ran over. Nodding with a serious face, one person hugged a basket and went to the ground with Xiaodou.

Lin Bei was busy keeping accounts in the house. After he had a pen and paper, his small leaf book was abandoned. The little guy would be counting today's accounts with his fingers. He didn't go out. Feng was naturally willing not to go out, so he stood behind him, raised his hand obediently, and watched Lin Bei finish counting his fingers and then counting his fingers.

Jiang Yan walked into the back room, took out the corn she bought before, and took out all the dried vegetables that Lin Dong's brothers had stored in the cellar. The first day was a little rushed. She didn't buy any vegetables in the town, so she planned to make two. There is one vegetable soup, one big bone soup with chopped mushrooms, one dry vegetable stewed pork, and one dry fried old lettuce with oil residue. This old lettuce was bought by Lin Nan in the village. The staple food is corn porridge and wowotou.

After everything was put in the stove, Zhang Yanzi and Lin Jun also came over, plus Xie Chunhua, three people, one to set fire, one to wash rice and cook, and one to carry water to wash vegetables, the division of labor clearly cooperated with each other.

"Mother, there are still many people in our village who have old lettuce and dried vegetables, and the green vegetables in the field have grown a lot. Should I continue to collect them?" Lin Xi moved the green vegetables into the kitchen. He was in the kitchen today. The family was busy early in the morning, yarding neat bundles of firewood, and went to the village to collect vegetables.

"Go ahead and use it at home for the next few days." Jiang Yan continued: "Let's make our yard bigger, leave the chicken coop and duck pen out, and go to the backyard for the sheep pen and horse pen."

Lin Xi nodded again and again. Although he was very busy every day, he was full of energy. When he thought that he was building a house, he was full of energy. He smiled every day and looked forward to his future life.

Jiang Yan was busy in the kitchen for a while, and Lin Dong and several others also closed the stall and returned home, especially Wang Jinhua and Liu Xiaomeng, who ran to the kitchen non-stop. I couldn't make it in time. When I was sitting on Lin Gui's ox cart, I couldn't help urging him a few more times.

"Jinhua Xiaomeng, you guys are back." Jiang Yan looked at the two people who were in a hurry, annoyed that she forgot to tell them that they had invited the villagers to cook.

"Mother, we're back late, we'll start making lunch right now." Wang Jinhua immediately rolled up her sleeves and went to the kitchen. Liu Xiaomeng, who was behind her, rolled up her sleeves without any fuss.

Jiang Yan looked at the two with a funny look: "Okay, just take a good rest as soon as you come back, I'm so busy during this time, I'm willing to let you all come back to cook lunch for dozens of people, I'll ask you, Aunt Lin and the others to help , the two of you drink some water first, have a good rest, and just go and help out later." He poured two glasses of water for the two of them.

Wang Jinhua's eyes were slightly red, holding a bowl of glucose water and trembling slightly. The distress in her mother-in-law's words warmed her heart like a stream of heat. Since she was a child, her own biological parents had never cared about her so much, she said with choked sobs. : "Mother, thank you mother... my daughter-in-law is not tired at all..."

Liu Xiaomeng was also grateful. She drank the sugar water in small sips, stared at her mother-in-law for a moment, and said from the bottom of her heart: "Mother, I will definitely honor you in the future! You let me go east and I will never go west! I'm going to give you retirement!"

Wang Jinhua said hurriedly: "Me too, I will give my mother a good old age!"

Jiang Yan: "..."

There's no need to send me away in such a hurry...I feel like I can live a long time...

At this time, Lin Nan led the village chief hurriedly in, and the village chief said hurriedly: "Xiao Jiang, you come out soon, I won't enter the house, let's go to measure the land now, I have to go to the mountain to see the bamboo rafts later. , hurry up."

Jiang Yan ran out of the house, looked at the village chief who was yelling at the door, and intuitively told her that something should have happened: "What's wrong, the village chief, what happened."

The village chief said angrily: "What else could it be, the bamboo rafts built in our village, I don't know if it was broken by people or by the big insects in the mountain, and there was a big hole missing. I just came down from the mountain and gave You measure the land, and I have to go up the mountain to see it again."

Jiang Yan was also a little worried when she heard it. After all, her family has to rely on this bamboo raft to divert water to the mountain to get water, and she immediately said: "Well, let's go to measure the land now, and I will follow you up the mountain after the measurement. go and see."

The village head nodded immediately, and the group went to the wasteland designated by Jiang Yan with the tools. Jiang Yan didn't understand how the village head measured it, but just put her request aside. Since she doesn't have any land in the barren mountains now The method is to buy it all at once, then buy the flat wasteland at the foot of the mountain first.

The village chief greeted his two sons, and began to measure the land according to Jiang Yan's gesture, starting from the bottom of the mountain and moving up. A total of 55 acres of land were measured. The village chief gave a discount price, which was calculated as 150 taels. The land there, Jiangyan, asked the village chief to demarcate two more acres of land, just to count the small bamboo forest as 6 taels of silver, a total of 156 taels.

Jiang Yanxin passed the village chief and gave the full amount directly after returning to the house. When the village chief held the silver, his hands trembled. He was the village chief for so many years. He had seen a lot, but it was the first time that he held it in his hand. He was afraid that he would lose it, so he immediately hid it in his arms.

"Tomorrow morning, I will go to the county to pass the chapter for you. I will pass the land to your name as soon as possible, and I will save a lot of nights." If the money is lost, he can't even afford to sell it.

Jiang Yan was amused by the village chief, and continued: "That's fine, tomorrow I plan to send a few children to the private school, and there is enough room for the carriage. The village chief will go with us in the carriage tomorrow morning."