happy daughter-in-law

Chapter 13 Borrowing Grain ([-])

"Master, I want to ask you something." Shen Yunfang finally had enough to eat, and it was time to ask something serious.

Shen Yeqing put down the small wine cup, looked at his niece, "What's the matter?"

Shen Yunfang was a little embarrassed, "It's nothing serious, I just want to ask, how can I get some cotton and cloth, you also know that my mother is not here now, and she never told me what to do before. It’s a bit blind to be caught alone.”

What she said is true. When she found that there was no thick padded jacket at home, she searched her memory by herself. She really has no memory about these aspects. Her mother never let her touch these when she was at home, so now she is alone. Yes, I don't know at all.For a rural child, her mother's way of raising children is also quite strange.

As for Shen Feiyang, she knew that in this era, people in the city had to use tickets to buy cloth or cotton, otherwise they would not be able to buy things if they had money, but she really didn't know how to get these things in the countryside.

After listening to Shen Yunfang's question, Aunt Shen straightened her back. She glanced nervously at Shen Yeqing, saw the look in his eyes, quickly squeezed out a smile, and said with a smile: "Oh, look at me , I’ve been so busy all day, I’ve forgotten about this matter in this busy work, it’s all my fault.”

Shen Yunfang didn't understand what she meant.

Aunt Shen put her hands on the kang, moved her buttocks into the kang, retreated to the kang cabinet, reached out and opened the door of the kang cabinet, and took out a dusty handkerchief, and then carefully opened it layer by layer. .

"For some tickets issued by our team a while ago, your uncle gave me all of yours and asked me to send them to you. As a result, I forgot about it when I was busy. You asked me today. Thinking about it, it just saves trouble, and I will give it to you directly." Aunt Shen said with a smile.

Everyone present could hear Aunt Shen's insincere words, and also saw the reluctance of her outstretched hand, and couldn't move their eyes from the ticket in the handkerchief.

Money is easy to use at this time, and this kind of ticket is even more useful than money. If you get these in the city, you can also exchange them for money.

Uncle Shen doesn't like the stinginess of his old lady. You say that he is a production team leader, and he gets more tickets than others every year, but this old lady is not satisfied, and even deducts the things of other orphans and widows, really.He snatched the handkerchief from the old woman's hand.

Shen Yunfang retracted the hand that was about to reach out, it was for me, why was it cut off again?

Uncle Shen was kind. He looked at the tickets inside, frowned and said, "You borrowed those tickets from her third aunt last year. Why didn't you pay them back after a year?"

Aunt Shen was about to cry, did this person belong to the same family as her? Why can’t she tell the difference between the inside and the outside? It’s also decent, I can’t borrow it everywhere, thinking that her third aunt’s family is small, and she can’t use so much, so I’ll borrow it first and use it. Hey, women here are all debts! In the past few years, I This demolished the east wall to make up for the west wall, and reluctantly returned all the outside, not thinking that her third aunt is my family, and I slowly paid it back, who knows... just look at this." Aunt Shen slapped her hands to show that she didn't expect it either.

What I didn't say is that I didn't expect her to die as soon as she said she would die.

Uncle Shen also knows his wife well. If he didn’t listen to her, his three younger brothers and sisters are gone, so the tickets he borrowed should be returned to his niece as soon as possible. It's cheap, not to mention that this orphan girl is her niece.

"Okay, I understand what you mean. It's not easy for Yunfang to be alone. You should quickly return to Yunfang what you owe her third aunt. You are not afraid that her third aunt will come to you at night." His last sentence He spoke in a very low voice, only Aunt Shen who was next to her heard it.

Although feudal superstition is being cracked down now, rural women at this time still believe in karma.Aunt Shen shivered, her frightened eyeballs rolled around, trying to see if there was really something unclean staring at her.

"Look at what you said, since when did I become the person who is greedy for petty gains? It's okay, I won't pay back the ones from Lao Qiu's family, and I can let Yunfang come first." Aunt Shen said, and took out the money from the kang cabinet again. Ah, I took out another handkerchief, then turned my back, took out a few from it, and stuffed them into Uncle Shen's hands, intending to let him give them to Shen Yunfang together.

Uncle Shen was not checking this time, and directly handed the handkerchief in his hand to Shen Yunfang.

"Yunfang, although we are not in the city, we still need a ticket if we want to buy cloth and cotton. Our village issues a ticket once a year, with a uniform standard, one catty of cotton per person per year, and eight feet of cloth."

Shen Yunfang reached out to take the few bills that her uncle handed to her.

"And when your brother Zhiwen got married, your aunt didn't have enough tickets, so she borrowed some from your mother. Now that your mother is gone, it's the same to pay you back. You are the only one left in your family. From now on You are an adult from the beginning, so you have to take care of these life matters yourself, if there is anything you don’t understand in the future, just ask your aunt.” Uncle Shen is really caring, if the niece Being able to live his own life well, he, as an uncle, can save himself from worrying.

Shen Yunfang took the handkerchief and didn't light it, she just stuffed it in her pocket, blocking the hot eyes of the two sisters-in-law.

"Master, look at what you said, we are all one family. I don't want to borrow anything. If my cousin needs it urgently, then I will take it and use it first. We don't have to make it so clear." Who can say beautiful words, although she Not perfect, but with a few polite words, mutual flattery is still possible.

Uncle Shen is very satisfied that his niece can understand the general situation like this, a family should be like this, if anyone has difficulties to help, the matter will be over.

Afterwards, Aunt Shen seemed to be trying to cover up her unnaturalness just now. After eating, she drove her daughter back to the house and asked her daughter-in-law to clean up the table, while she pulled Shen Yunfang and talked intimately.

It's basically nothing more than "how is your firewood collection? Is it enough to burn it in winter? If you can't do it yourself, you must be sure to say something. Let Zhijie and Zhiwen go up the mountain to carry it for you twice." It's gone." "Have you harvested all the sweet potatoes in your private plot? If so, ask your two older brothers to help you." And so on.

It was also from her concerned questions that Shen Yunfang knew that although Gaijiatun was not rich, until now, as long as he was not too lazy, basically every family could have enough to eat.

Because the rations of the villagers are not only distributed by the production team at the end of the year, but every family has a large private plot in the village. Based on the villagers' desire for food, basically all the private plots are planted with grain, either corn or corn. Sweet potatoes, after a year, can also harvest hundreds of catties of grain.

Therefore, although it is not good to eat in Gaijiatun, as long as you work hard to eat enough, you can still do it.

Then why does Shen Yunfang only have that little grain at home?The main reason is that neither the original owner nor her mother is a capable person. There is no labor force in the family, and they are weak when they are farming. They plant the few parts of their private land neatly every day, and the two of them are holding their stomachs. It took several days to finish.

In addition, Shen Yunfang's old lady is not a serious person who knows how to live, so the private land is really not very good. Basically, it is to sow the seeds, and then wait for the harvest after autumn. Of course, in the end, the grain harvested by others must be less than theirs. up.

Shen Yunfang's old mother basically borrowed money from relatives before her family ran out of food, and then repaid it when the food was distributed, and borrowed it when there was not enough food for the next year.It's just going round and round like this, and I have survived these years, but the more I pass, the poorer I become.

Ever since Shen Yunfang's old mother left, Shen Yunfang weighed it in. She couldn't afford to repay her relatives' food, so she didn't dare to borrow it. In order to save food, she went to various relatives' houses. In the past year, she never had any sense of existence. The little girl has become a nuisance to everyone.

After listening to what the aunt said, Shen Yunfang secretly felt ashamed of the original owner's thick skin and ignorance for a while, and then immediately realized that in order to fill his stomach, he had to continue the original owner's thick skin.

(End of this chapter)