The story of the struggle of the poor girl who crossed

Chapter 28 Worry
On the occasion of Tian Sheng's housewarming, Mai Xiang suggested: "Daddy, you have such a good relationship with Uncle Tian Sheng, even better than brothers. This time, our family might as well send a set of bowls and chopsticks to Uncle Tian Sheng's family. good?"

Send a set of bowls and chopsticks, this is a great gift!Liang Gaoshan looked at his wife and asked her opinion: "Mother of the child, what do you think?" People in the village would give a pot or a dozen eggs at most for such favors.Some people even eat it empty-handed.

Fahrenheit nodded: "Yes, anyway, our family is relatively well-off now, so it's okay to send a set of bowls and chopsticks."

Tian Sheng's eyes couldn't help getting moist when he received a set of brand-new and beautiful bowls and chopsticks from Mai Xiang's house. Compared with the small basket of vegetables sent by his elder brother's house, Brother Gao Shan is really interesting.Having such a good brother, the chills brought to him by the elder brother's family and his parents have finally faded a lot.

The days passed quickly, and a month passed in the blink of an eye.

At Mai Xiang's suggestion, Liang Gaoshan and Chang's went to the market again and bought [-] chickens back.

Fahrenheit was a little worried: "With so many chickens raised, can we sell them at that time? That is, can we sell them at a good price?"

Mai Xiang nodded with certainty: "It's definitely possible. If you are lucky, you can sell all the chickens! Moreover, the price will definitely not be low!"

Fahrenheit is still very worried, her daughter is only eight years old, although she is very intelligent, but after all her age is at this point, everything she says can be accurate.

However, it turned out that Fahrenheit's worries were unnecessary.

Three months later, except for the first 50 chicks, more than [-] hens were purchased by Haoyunlai at high prices.Lucky Lai has five branches in the Bishuijiang area, and Mai Xiang’s chicken is still in short supply.

The shopkeeper Liang also specially said to Mai Xiang: "You can raise more chickens. No matter how many you have, you can buy them if you are lucky." More than 200 chickens are indeed too small. The head office in Qinghe County alone can do it in a day. Consume more than 30 chickens.

Fahrenheit was finally at ease.

Liang Gaoshan was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear, he took Chang's and Mai Xiang to the market again, and bought another [-] chicks.Since then, every other month, he will buy [-] chicks.

Some people in the village were jealous and bought wasteland, enclosing a large yard to raise a large number of chickens.However, the chickens always had chicken plague, and they lost everything.

Fu Ling asked curiously: "Mother, why don't my chickens have roup?"

After hearing this, Mrs. Chang couldn't help laughing: "This is because my family has your eldest sister as a lucky star. She planted a lot of herbs on the mountain, and regularly mixed herbs into the earthworms for the chickens. The chicken pens were also cleaned. It is very clean, and our chickens are raised on the mountain, isolated from the chickens in the village."

Feeding chickens with earthworms is naturally not a whole feed, but cut the earthworms into pieces and put them in the trough for feeding chickens.At this point, it's time to mix in the worms with chopped greens and herbs.

Fahrenheit told his daughter: "Poria cocos, licorice, don't tell them. This is the secret of my family's chicken raising. If someone asks you, just say you don't know."

Poria and Licorice nodded vigorously.

The days passed quickly, and it was the end of the year in a blink of an eye.

On the mountain of Mai Xiang's house, there were three more calves and five lambs.Moreover, the calves and lambs bought before have all grown up.The shopkeeper Liang, who was lucky enough to come, came in person, selected fifteen sheep, and offered a very good price on his own initiative.

Before leaving, shopkeeper Liang said regretfully, "Your cattle are not bad, but it's a pity that cattle can't be slaughtered casually."

Cattle in this era, as the most important farming tool, are not allowed to be slaughtered casually.Only the members of the royal family and honorable families can eat beef.Mai Xiang's family raises cattle, intending to sell them to landlords or farmers as cattle for farming, rather than selling them to restaurants and restaurants for slaughter.

Fifteen sheep were sold for a total of 75 taels of silver.This is considered a large amount of income. You must know that an ordinary farm family, even with a few acres of fertile land, plus the family's pigs, chickens and ducks, can only earn five or six taels of income throughout the year.

Mrs. Chang was very happy, and couldn't stop praising Mai Xiang: "Mai Xiang is the star of our family, if this continues, it will be no problem for him to be a Jinshi in the future!"

Liang Gaoshan smiled foolishly: "Hey, that's right! At the beginning, those lambs were bought for only one tael of silver, but now they are only raised for six or seven months, and they are sold for five taels of silver!"

The most important thing is that these sheep are raised on their own mountains, so they don't have to worry about it at all except to clean the sheepfold.Moreover, the accumulated sheep manure can also be taken to the field on the southern slope as fertilizer.Now, the land on the southern slope is fertile.

Fahrenheit is happier than anyone else. It seems that Mai Xiang is really capable.In the future, she no longer has to worry about it.

Good things always come together.

On the second day after the sheep was sold, Mai Xiang's family received a letter informing her that her little uncle Hua Yangfan had returned safely.Five years ago, my uncle was conscripted into the army. Last year, news came that my uncle had died in battle.Today, my little uncle has come back to life from the dead. This is really a great joy!

Mai Xiang has three uncles in total. Although the first uncle and second uncle are not bad, the first aunt and second aunt are very difficult people to get along with.The first and second uncles are much older than Mai Xiang's mother, and the two uncles got married before Mai Xiang's mother got married.Mai Xiang's mother was bullied by two sister-in-laws, and her relationship with the two sisters-in-law was not good. After getting married, Mai Xiang's mother had a bad life. Every time she went back to her mother's house, she would be ridiculed and ridiculed by the two sister-in-laws.

Especially after the separation, Mai Xiang's parents were so poor that they were even more unpopular with her sisters-in-law.When I went to my mother's house during the holidays, the two sisters-in-law didn't even stay for food, and drove them away with vitriolic words.Especially when there was a severe drought and Mai Xiang's mother gave birth to her fifth brother Huang Lian, no one from her mother's family came to visit Huashi and Huang Lian.

Fahrenheit had a deep resentment towards her natal family, even though the family had money and moved into a new house, she did not visit her natal family.It is also because Mai Xiang's grandmother's house is far away from Liangjia'ao, separated by several mountains, and it would take a whole day to walk.The two places are not in the same town, and they would not go to the same place for market or something on weekdays.So, at this time, Grandma Mai Xiang's family probably didn't know that Mai Xiang's family got rich.Otherwise, those two powerful and greedy aunts would definitely come to her.

According to the letter, it should be five days since the little uncle came back.

Mai Xiang couldn't help being a little worried, so she asked Fahrenheit: "Mother, didn't grandma's family split up last year? The land and house in the family were divided between the uncle and the second uncle. What should I do when my uncle comes back?"

Fahrenheit was also very worried: "That's right, with your two aunts as people, it is specified that they are not willing to share part of the land and house with your little uncle."

Mai Xiang said: "Mother, why don't we go to Mushroom Village tomorrow to visit my little uncle. If my little uncle is not doing well, let's give him some money to help him tide over the difficulties."

Fahrenheit nodded in satisfaction: "Okay, you can accompany your mother there tomorrow."

Liang Gaoshan heard about it and said, "Bring more money tomorrow. If Yang Fan doesn't have a place to live, I'll give him money to help him build a house."

Fahrenheit nodded with tears in her eyes: "Yes, I understand." She was very touched by her husband's generosity.

That night, Fahrenheit prepared some pancakes and boiled eggs.He also put half of the blue cotton cloth and half of the blue linen in the basket, and prepared to give them to Mai Xiang's grandma and grandfather.After all, Er Lao is her biological parents, even if they don't want to see her, she can't go empty-handed.

After lunch, Mai Xiang and Huashi stayed in the kitchen again, tinkering all afternoon, and made several pastries that lasted long.It is a custom in Liangjia'ao that when visiting relatives, they usually bring homemade pastries.

It's been a long time since I went to my mother's house. In fact, Fahrenheit still misses his parents a little.In any case, they have given birth to themselves.

From Liangjiaao to Mushroom Village, most of them are rugged mountain roads, which can only be reached on foot.Liang Gaoshan couldn't bear it, so he said, "I'll give you a ride!"

The place where the bullock cart can go is about ten miles.

Naturally, Fahrenheit and Mai Xiang would not refuse.Even so, when the mother and daughter arrived at Mushroom Village, they were also out of breath and embarrassed.

Mushroom Village is located in a remote mountainous area. The arrival of Huashi and Maixiang has attracted everyone's attention.Along the way, someone greeted Fahrenheit: "Luluo, have you come back to see your parents?"

Fahrenheit smiled and nodded: "Yes, Second Aunt."

"Luluo, this time I'm here, so I'll stay for a few more days. Your brother finally came back, you have to treat him better."

"Okay, I see, thank you Uncle Wu."

"Luluo, your younger brother is so pitiful. As a sister, you may not be able to ignore him!" A gray-haired old man stopped Fahrenheit and sighed deeply.

Fahrenheit couldn't help being taken aback: "What's wrong with sailing?"

The old man: "Your eldest brother and second brother didn't let Yang Fan into the house. Now Yang Fan is forced to go to the mountain and live in the broken wooden house where the hunter rests temporarily."

What?Even the door is not allowed to enter? !

"It's too much!" Fahrenheit burst into tears immediately, choked up and said, "Does my parents not care about my eldest brother and second brother's appearance?"

The old man: "Oh, your father and mother are biased. Seeing that your younger brother is lame and dressed in tatters, you may not be able to count on him in this life. So, don't bother to offend your elder brother and second brother."

"There is no reason!" Fahrenheit shouted angrily.

Mai Xiang quickly said to the old man respectfully: "Excuse me, grandpa, where exactly does my little uncle live?"

The old man: "Oh, you are Luluo's daughter, right? That's all right, I'll let my grandson take you there!" He beckoned a boy in his teens, and said to him: "Wu Mu, this is your Aunt Luluo, You take them to your Uncle Yangfan!"

Mai Xiang hurriedly took out a pack of pastries from her bag: "Grandpa, this is my kindness, please accept it!"

The old man was not too polite, took the pastry, and said with a cheerful smile: "Okay, I will not be polite. Luluo, your girl looks good, she is polite and cute!"

Fahrenheit smiled proudly, the anger and sadness on his face were diluted a lot.

Mai Xiang gave Mu Mu a small bag of candy again, and Mu Mu was very happy, bouncing all the way, and brought Mai Xiang, mother and daughter, to a place five or six miles away.In front of you, there is a continuous mountain.

"Aunt Luluo, Uncle Yangfan lives in that wooden house halfway up the mountain." Standing at the foot of the mountain, Mu Mu stretched out his hand and said to Fahrenheit.

At the foot of the mountain, there is a winding mountain road leading up to the mountain.The dense trees blocked the line of sight, and there was no cabin to be seen.

(End of this chapter)