Red Mansion Reader

Chapter 101 Disaster

On September [-]th, Xieyuan Cui Youdao, Yayuan Du Yunjing brought the other [-] new recruits back to the academy to thank the masters.

Jia Yucun and the others were naturally very happy. While ordering people to prepare a banquet, they called the children and scholars from the academy to the lecture hall to witness the scenery of the people.

The masters are kind, and hope that everyone can follow the example of Cui Youdao, Du Yunjing and others, and continue to forge ahead bravely, but this has suffered for the students.

This autumn is much hotter than previous years.

Everyone huddled together in a dark crowd, and it didn't take long for their foreheads to sweat.Qian Dayou's body was already on the fat side, but now the color of his chest began to change.

"True evil." Jiang Yuanbai whispered to the students on both sides, "It is said that autumn is refreshing, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is over, why is the weather still as hot as June."

Xue Biao stood beside Chen Heng, carefully shaking the fan in his hand, comforting him, "When the autumn rain comes, it should be cool."

Jiang Yuanbai nodded, and said with a smile: "I got up early today, and when I went out, I just saw the morning glow thousands of miles away. I can't tell, it will rain in the next two days. Brother Heng, do you think so?"

Chen Heng, who is also from a peasant family, didn't know how to reply for a while, so he only smiled a little forcedly, and said: "I also hope that it will rain as soon as possible."

Qian Dayou was dizzy from the heat, and when he heard the word rain, he couldn't help asking Jiang Yuanbai: "Do you still watch the sky?"

"You old and young masters in the city don't understand." Jiang Yuanbai said proudly, "Go and ask the peasants in the field, who doesn't know the truth that the morning glow does not go out, and the evening glow travels thousands of miles."

"It's late at night, how can you travel thousands of miles?" Qian Dayou was stunned, and continued to ask.

Jiang Yuanbai was at a loss for words for a while, and quickly looked at Chen Heng, hoping that the other party would come out to save the situation.

However, Chen Heng didn't pay attention to their discussion. His eyes seemed to be fixed on Juren, who was bowed and saluted by the masters in front of him. In fact, he didn't know where his thoughts drifted.

After finally waiting for Jia Yucun to announce that the students can leave, Qian Dayou walked out of the lecture hall first, pointed to the sunny sky, and asked Jiang Yuanbai who came after him: "Is this the rain you said?"

The crowd laughed for a while, and then surrounded each other and returned to the dormitory.

"Brother Heng." As soon as Xue Biao sat down in his seat, he tapped the head of his fan on Chen Heng's shoulder, and then turned his mouth towards Jiang Yuanbai.

Chen Heng, who had been on errands for a long time, remembered today's important event, slapped his head, got up and walked towards Jiang Yuanbai and Qian Dayou.

"Brother Qian, Brother Jiang." Chen Heng took out the six taels of silver prepared by Xue Biao from his arms, "This is your monthly silver."

Now Qian Dayou and Jiang Yuanbai are employed by the newspaper shop, and they will send articles selected from the literary agency to the newspaper shop every month. The six taels of silver is the reward Chen Heng promised them.

It's not the first time for the two of them to take money, so if they are humble, they will naturally save it.One person took three taels, Jiang Yuanbai still smiled and cupped his hands: "Thank you Chen Dong's family and Xue Dong's family."

"Three taels of silver can't stop your mouth." Xue Biao chuckled and pointed to Jiang Yuanbai.

Chen Heng thought for a while, then suddenly sat beside Jiang Yuanbai, and asked, "Are you going to use this money to buy things for your younger sisters?"

Jiang Yuanbai himself mentioned it before, but he didn't expect Brother Heng to remember this kind of thing, he nodded and said cheerfully: "Yes, I saw several things on the street a few days ago."

"Brother Jiang, you might as well save your money and wait." Chen Heng persuaded, "It's not far from the New Year's Eve, so if you keep the money, you can ask what is lacking at home and buy enough for yourself."

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Jiang Yuanbai didn't refuse such trivial matters, and he followed the advice of his classmates directly.

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After class this day, Chen Heng didn't sleep in the academy.Taking advantage of the slightly cooler weather in the evening, hurry home.

Except for the two brothers Chen Qi and Chen Huaijin who hadn't come back, everyone else sat in the courtyard and chatted. When the grandson came back, grandma hurriedly asked if he had eaten?

Chen Henglue replied, and moved a stool to sit next to his family members, listening to them continue chatting.

The house is almost cleaned up now, and a shed has been set up in the courtyard.Under the cool night, the members of the Chen family seem to have returned to the peaceful time of Shanxi Village.

"Fortunately, I listened to Heng'er and didn't agree to let you stay in the village." Mrs. Zhou continued what she had just said, "This autumn is so hot, if you really want to let you go to the fields alone, what will happen? Sample."

Chen Yushan snorted twice, a little bit dissatisfied: "No matter how hot it is, you have to work in the fields. You can't let the ripe crops die in the sun."

"It's okay, grandpa, don't you still have the patriarch and them?" Chen Heng hurried out to smooth things over, "With them here this year, your crops will definitely not be delayed."

Chen Heng had long thought of arrangements for the Chen family's thirteen acres of land.When they moved their family in July, Chen Qi entrusted this autumn harvest to the patriarch.

In addition to the taxes to be paid to the county, the rest of the grain was taken by the patriarch to sell in the county.The silver taels obtained will be divided into one layer for the servants as compensation, and the patriarch will take half of the money himself, and the remaining money will be entrusted to Chen Yushan.

The farmer is very clear about the harvest in the field, and the entrustment is from the same family in the same village. Chen Yushan is not worried that his money will run away, but he is quite regretful: "Next year, I have to go back and see My lands."

Everyone felt a little helpless towards this stubborn old man.It is still a matter of next year, and there is no need to have a headache right now.Everyone turned the topic to the missed Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival.

This year, because of the rural examination, Yangzhou City did not hold a major event.The two sisters, Chen and Qing, regret that they missed the grand scene that their younger brother talked about on their first Mid-Autumn Festival when they came to Yangzhou.

While everyone was talking, Chen Qi and Chen Huaijin came in with two bags of things, sweating profusely.

"Why didn't you come back until now?" Gu Shi and Li Shi rushed forward to meet their man, Gu's eyes kept falling on Chen Qi's shoulder, and he asked curiously, "What did you buy?"

"Don't look at it, it's all rice." Chen Qi put down his things, and persuaded Gu who was looking through while wiping his sweat.

"Okay, why buy so much rice." Gu was completely confused.

"Heng'er asked us to buy it." Chen Huaijin answered for his elder brother.

Only then did the whole family turn their attention to the child. Ever since the child created a house for the family in Yangzhou, Chen Heng has gained some status in the family.

Seeing everyone looking at him, Chen Heng grinned and said, "I heard from the newspaper shop that the price of rice will rise this year, and I'm worried that there won't be enough food for the family."

"Nonsense, where can the price of rice go?" Chen Gaishan rarely scolded Chen Heng, and was about to continue to teach his precious grandson the tips of buying rice.He suddenly opened his mouth and looked at his wife, "I..."

Seeing that he was speechless, Mrs. Zhou said anxiously: "What do you want to say, just say it."

Chen Gaishan waved his hand, but didn't say a word.He just got up silently and helped his sons move the rice together.

The family didn't understand the situation, and seeing that it was getting late, they each called the younger generation to go back to the house to sleep.

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At night, after Chen Yushan was lying on the bed with Mrs. Zhou, he said what he had suffocated in the courtyard.

"Do you still remember the drought that hit Huaijin when the first child was born?"

Zhou frowned when she heard this, and turned her back a little angrily, "Okay, what are you talking about?"

"Look at you." Chen Yushan pushed her and explained to his wife, "I am talking to you."

"What are you talking about? About my poor grandson?" Mrs. Zhou said a little angrily after being turned over, "I don't want to recall those days, and I can't even buy a vegetable leaf with money." (Note 1)

"At that time, you and your sons went to the relief shop in the county to carry rice back. I don't know how worried my daughter-in-law and I are at home."

"I'm afraid that you might run into robbers on the road. After waiting for you to come back, you have to be careful when cooking rice. When you sleep at night, you have to guard the door with a knife."

"You love to think about such a day, but I don't want to think about it at all."

"Don't worry, I just feel that this autumn is so hot." Chen Yushan shook his head, full of suspicion, "Do you think the weather is like our time?"

Zhou's eyes widened suddenly, and the eyes in the night were full of horror.

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Taking advantage of the stillness of the night, Chen Heng locked the doors and windows of his house, and took out a small wooden box from under the bed.

The box was handcrafted by Chen Qi, but the lock on it was bought by Chen Heng himself, and the key was saved and kept close to him all the time.Putting the box on the table and opening it, Chen Heng removed all the books on the top and took out a booklet from the bottom.

The contents of the booklet are all the plots in the book that he can recall over the years.Naturally, Chen Heng didn't dare to use fonts to record, and used the pinyin abbreviations that he only had in his previous life after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Chen Heng turned to one of the pages, compared the pinyin abbreviations, and he silently read the meaning of this line in his mind: the first time Grandma Liu went to Jia's mansion to ask for money and food, she should have been around the age of ten or eleven when Sister Lin was around.

He couldn't remember exactly when Grandma Liu went there, he just remembered that Grandma Liu's family was a farmer on the farm, it happened that there was a natural disaster and drought that year, the field didn't have any harvest, and his family couldn't survive, so he went there with the cheek Jia's mansion asks for some life-saving things.

Recalling this incident at the time, because it was related to natural disasters, Chen Heng immediately found a notebook to write it down.

　Note 1: The source of this remark comes from Si Qi. When she went to ask for egg custard, Mrs. Liu from the small kitchen in Daguanyuan complained that the eggs were too expensive. There are still days."

　　This drought was not made up by me.

　　Today, Cavin is the real Cavin, and it always feels like it's almost meaningless.I'll write Chapter 2 first, and I'll revise it later. Sorry, sorry, I kept you waiting.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)