The powerful minister favors the small farmer's wife alone

Chapter 16
After hearing Su Xiaoye's words, the two brothers not only did not doubt, but even nodded in unison. Su Chang said quickly: "Sister, don't worry, we promise not to tell daddy."

Xu Zhixiang couldn't laugh or cry when she heard it from behind, but there was water and fish, so she wouldn't have a bad life in this drought year, and her children were all with her, so she didn't want to think about the bad things Su Laosan did.

It's just that the yard was built in the village, so I don't know if it can be bought.

Although the money for selling the fish has not yet arrived, she has already made plans for a better life in the future.

All the strong and laborers in the village wanted to repair the embankment, but Su Laosan went late and did not come back until after dark.

After entering the door, I poured a bowl of cold water, and then said: "Boss and second child, you will go to work with me tomorrow. I have agreed with others. The boss will count it as a laborious job, and the second child will do some light work. Half a job. Our family has more than 1000 Wen a month."

After sorting out the grass roots and medicinal materials, Su Ling and Su Chang sat in the yard weaving willow baskets under the moonlight, Su Ling shook his head, "Father, my brother and I will go to the city tomorrow to see if we can find an apprentice to do it. I heard people say that after three years of apprenticeship, you can earn more than one or two dollars a month after leaving the teacher. Even if you can't be an apprentice, let's see if you can do something else."

The third child Su frowned, "You are seventeen, and it will be too late to marry a wife on the day you leave the teacher, so let the second child go by himself, and you will go to work with me tomorrow."

Su Ling laughed, "Father said that if I don't become an apprentice, I can marry a wife."

Seeing that Su Ling bowed his head to weave baskets after finishing speaking, and didn't want to talk to him at all, Third Su was helpless.

Looking at the empty house, he was also powerless to refute.Fortunately, the eldest son doesn't look sad, but no one knows what is going on in his heart. He still repairs the embankment well, and earns twenty coins a day. If he can save a few taels of silver, he will have to marry his son a wife .

In the evening, I still ate dried sweet potatoes, which were so dry and hard that Su Lan couldn't chew them, and she cried after eating them.

Xu Zhixiang felt distressed when she saw it, "Boss, you can bring the medicinal materials you picked today to the city to sell tomorrow. Mr. Li's Chinese medicine skills are not bad, but he is too stingy, and those medicinal materials can't be sold at his place. Wait until you sell them for money." Buy a pot that can cook porridge for the family, and we will cook porridge to drink at night."

Knowing that Xu Zhixiang was referring to the fish in the bucket and the rabbit, Su Ling smiled and nodded.

The next day, there was a commotion outside the courtyard wall before dawn.

The youngest Su opened the door to look outside, and said that the people from the government had arrived, and many soldiers surrounded the water source, and wanted to build a stone pond to store water.

Before the pool was repaired, the water from the water source was stored in large tanks, and was distributed to the village according to the head, and the rest was sold in the city.

The water shortage in the city was even more serious. A scoop of water was sold for two cents, and the money from selling water was just enough to repair dams and pay wages.

Yesterday, all the dead leaves and weeds in the well were cleaned up, and the water that Su Xiaoye poured into the well was already very clean. Except for the youngest Su, the whole family was sincerely worried that we would not be able to fetch water casually in the future, and the water would not be enough. How to do?The rest of the people, including the little Su Lan, were wondering how much money they could exchange for selling the fish.

After eating dried sweet potatoes, the youngest Su went to work on the river embankment.

With Su Ling and Su Chang around, there is no need for Xu Zhixiang and Su Xiaoye to carry water to catch fish.

Su Xiaoye put more fish on purpose last night when refilling the water, and now at least one can be caught in a bucket, and the two brothers laughed while fishing, the corners of their mouths never falling.

If it wasn't for the fear that the grilled fish would taste too delicious, Xu Zhixiang would have wanted to grill two fish for each of the children.

(End of this chapter)