farmer's little girl

Chapter 39
Since you want to do it, you must inquire in advance.

For many consecutive days, Mei Zhuangyi invited Yang Qingshan out for a drink every day. This man's wine taste was not good, and his alcohol capacity was extremely poor.

However, Mei Zhuangyi was not at ease with one-sided words, so he entrusted many people to inquire about the news.Later, seeing that I hadn't heard any useful news, I decided to go out and see the situation myself.And Mei Zhuangyi went out this time with the firm where Yang Qingshan was located. Naturally, it was impossible for the firm to bring outsiders. went together.

So there must be no problem with the little uncle's safety when he goes out this time?

Lu Jiaoyue couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, although she didn't say anything yesterday, she was actually very worried about the safety of her little uncle going out this time.Now that I heard that he went out with a big firm, at least she can relax for the time being.

"Your little uncle is not a child either, so you don't have to worry about him so much." Han Jin said rather displeased.Why doesn't she care so much about him?

Lu Jiaoyue sighed in her heart, it didn't matter if she was a child or not, it's a pity she couldn't tell him clearly.

Seeing her silent appearance, Han Jin couldn't help but regret for pushing her into a hurry yesterday.He didn't intend to speak out at her house, but after drinking some wine yesterday and seeing her avoiding him like a snake, he couldn't help but reveal his thoughts all at once.

Seeing that she didn't even dare to look at him at this time, Han Jin couldn't help but feel a little frustrated.

Could it be that she really doesn't want to see herself that much?
"What else do you want to ask? Let's ask together, lest you always suspect that I have ulterior motives."

Lu Jiaoyue was a little surprised at Han Jin's performance, but she would not let go of such a good opportunity, so she asked, "Uncle Jin, how much money do you want to invest in this time when you are going to do business with my little uncle?" ?” When she asked, she felt that the question was a little too much.

Unexpectedly, Han Jin was just stunned for a moment, and then said: "500 taels." This is the approximate amount of silver taels he can get during the period of time he calculated.

Lu Jiaoyue was surprised, so many.But after thinking about it again, since I want to be a merchandiser, the cost is naturally indispensable. If the cost is small, then it is not called a merchandiser, but a hawker.

"Then my little uncle also wants to vote so much?"

Han Jin nodded.

Lu Jiaoyue couldn't help biting her lower lip.

500 taels of silver?Although she didn't know how much silver my little uncle had left with his grandparents, it was definitely not as much as 500 taels.It must be the grandparents who took out all the private money in their hands, and even the coffin book.In fact, my grandfather didn't have any private houses. When the Mei family separated, all the money from the father's house was distributed to several sons. These private houses were saved by my grandmother in the early years.

Although old man Mei cherishes his wife and doesn't want her to do needlework, but Mrs. Liu has been an embroiderer all her life, so how can she be free.Doing it secretly, and saved a lot of money over the past few decades.The reason why Lu Jiaoyue knew about this was because Mrs. Liu told her when she was a child. Mrs. Liu told her more than once that when she got married, she would buy her a generous dowry.

No wonder the little uncle would be so decadent in his previous life, no one knows better than Lu Jiaoyue how proud the little uncle is and how much he wants to prove that he is not idle.He clearly wanted to do everything well, but he lost his parents' coffin and was disabled himself. I'm afraid these are all great blows to him.

At the same time, Lu Jiaoyue suddenly remembered something.

She vaguely remembered that the reason why my little uncle became so decadent in his previous life was that he had a good brother who died to save him, and he lost his life to save him. If it weren't for that disaster, he would definitely not be as simple as being lame .She also heard what her mother said about this matter, and didn't take it to heart at all at the time, but now it hit her head like a bolt from the blue.

Dead brother?
Could it be Uncle Jinzi?

"what happened to you?"

Lu Jiaoyue tried her best to suppress the panic in her heart, and shook her head: "No, it's nothing." She didn't dare to look at Han Jin, fearing that he would see something from her expression.

How could it be nothing like this, Han Jin sighed in his heart, and said, "I don't think you should doubt your little uncle, since he decided to start this business, he must have done it after careful consideration. Don't you understand your little uncle's character?"

Others don't know, but Han Jin knows how much Mei Zhuangyi has spent in this business, otherwise he would not have decided to go to the south just in case.It seems that Mei Zhuangyi is used to being casual, but in fact, if he really wants to do something, he will be very cautious, and he will only do it after making complete preparations.

Lu Jiaoyue was stunned.

Yes, how could she not understand my little uncle's character, so she couldn't stop this business at all, and no one could stop what my little uncle wanted to do, neither could grandparents, nor could her mother, let alone her, So is the outcome a foregone conclusion?

She looked at Han Jin.

Lu Jiaoyue's feelings towards Han Jin are actually very complicated. On the one hand, she feels that the other party has helped her a lot, and on the other hand, he comforted her during the embroidery sale, so she feels that this person is particularly trustworthy, but on the other hand On the one hand, he was deterred by the other party's love.

Since her rebirth, she has never thought about getting married. She has too many things to do, and she has no time to think about it, nor does she want to think about it.But the other party's love made her have to face this problem, so she avoided it subconsciously.She even thought that it would be best not to see him again, but he used the matter of her little uncle to lure her to meet him.But now there is another serious question in front of him, will he die?
The hands under Lu Jiaoyue's sleeves couldn't help trembling.

At this moment, she was [-]% sure that the person who died because of my little uncle in her previous life was Uncle Jinzi.He and his little uncle are good brothers, and they are doing this business in partnership with his little uncle. If it wasn't him, who else could it be?
But will he really die?
Lu Jiaoyue suddenly had a feeling that she didn't want to see Uncle Jin die.

Not because he likes himself, but because he is Uncle Jinzi.

She didn't want to see her die in a place she couldn't see like her elder brother in her previous life.Lu Jiaoyue died once, so she knew what it was like before she died, it was so lonely, lonely, as if she was the only one left in the world.He was so powerless again, he obviously didn't want to die, but he had to face death.

She took a deep breath, raised her head, and said with a trembling voice: "Uncle Jin, can you not do this business with my little uncle?"

Han Jin frowned, apparently misunderstood.

He wasn't very handsome, but he definitely had a very manly face, and it was gloomy at this moment: "You don't like me so much, you can't even be friends with your little uncle?"

Lu Jiaoyue hurriedly shook her head: "No, no, you misunderstood, I thought it was best for you not to do this business."

"Why?" Han Jin looked at her fixedly.

Lu Jiaoyue didn't speak, just lowered her head.

"You don't even say the reason, how can others agree to your request?"

She bit her lower lip, hesitated for a long time, and then said: "Ever since I knew my little uncle was going to do this business, I kept repeating this dream..."

"What dream?" Han Jin asked subconsciously.

"I dreamed that my little uncle started this business, and then lost everything." Lu Jiaoyue thought about this argument for a long time before coming up with it, but she was always hesitant to convince others.But now she really can't hesitate anymore, because if she hesitates, she may lose a life.She had to convince Uncle Jin not to do this business with the little uncle, and it would be best if neither he nor the little uncle did it.

Han Jin frowned and said, "You think about it every day and dream at night. You care too much about your little uncle."

Lu Jiaoyue also hoped so, but the fact is not.She tried her best to think about how to say it, so that she could convince the other party without letting the other party notice anything abnormal.

"But even if you think about it every day and dream at night, you can't have the same dream at the same time. You don't know, that dream is too real. I dreamed that my little uncle lost all his money in business, not only that , he was also seriously injured, and he limped one leg after the injury. Since then, he has been depressed. Because he used all the family's money to do business, and he lost so badly, the family was very troubled, My grandmother was not in good health, she passed away in a few years, and my grandfather also..."

Having said this, Lu Jiaoyue came to her senses as if she was raving.

Unconsciously, she actually said so much.She couldn't help but look at Han Jin's expression, and when she saw him lost in thought, she breathed a sigh of relief. She really had been holding back for a long time.

"What about me?" Han Jin said suddenly: "Since you dreamed that your little uncle lost money in business, then I must be with him. He was seriously injured and disabled. What about me?" ?”

Lu Jiaoyue subconsciously avoided Han Jin's gaze.

"My end must be bad, I'm probably dead. That's why you stopped me from doing business with your little uncle? Am I dead?" Han Jin paused for a moment, then continued. : "This is why you are eager to inquire about your little uncle's business. You are not worried that he will lose money, but because you want to prevent him from doing this business from the beginning to the end?"

All the previous doubts were finally answered in an instant.

"But since you have been dreaming that your little uncle lost money in business and ended up in such a tragic end, why don't you know the specifics of his business and still need to ask me?" This is what Han Jin has always said. Can't figure it out.

Now that everything has been said, Lu Jiaoyue can no longer hide it anymore, she always has to find a reason to persuade the other party, and then said: "My dream is very one-sided, I didn't dream that you died, because in the dream, the whole My mother told me about it. I just heard from my mother that my little uncle had a brother who died, and he died to save him, and this is the real reason why my little uncle fell into a slump afterwards."

Han Jin was taken aback and fell into deep thought for a long time.

After a while, he raised his eyes to look at Lu Jiaoyue, and said with some difficulty: "Maybe you really think about it every day and dream at night."

Lu Jiaoyue didn't speak, just looked at him.

Han Jin smiled bitterly: "I didn't believe it at first, but after hearing what you said, why did I believe it a little bit."

Lu Jiaoyue felt relieved, she just believed it, so she didn't have to think hard to convince him.And with his help, it must be easier to stop my little uncle from doing business.

"Then do you know why your little uncle lost all his money and was injured and limped?" Han Jin asked suddenly.

She hesitated for a while, and said: "I don't know, but I guess it is related to man-made disasters. You think, since you are a merchant, you still want to come back from the south, you must not avoid the disadvantages of the long distance. Mountains and rivers, who knows what will happen, I guess the little uncle probably met the robbers and ended up like that." This is Lu Jiaoyue's guess.

Han Jin pondered for a while and said, "Your analysis makes sense."

"Then Uncle Jinzi, are you not doing this business with my little uncle anymore, can you help persuade him not to do it?"

Han Jin glanced at her in surprise, "When did I say I won't partner with your little uncle?"

Lu Jiaoyue was in a hurry and wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Han Jin.

"It seems that you didn't pay attention to what I said before. Your little uncle is not a person who is easily swayed. And if you give up a good opportunity to make money just because of a non-existent dream, even I will not do it." The man There is a gambling instinct in his bones, and he will turn the world upside down in exchange for a single gamble, and he will not give up even if he is a person.

"It's not just nonsense." Lu Jiaoyue couldn't help but say.

"Well, let's just assume it's not a fiction, so why don't you think about it in a different way, since you dreamed about a disaster, it may not be a tragedy that is about to happen, but a warning, let us avoid the disaster After all, only by explaining it in this way can we explain the dream you had, otherwise why did you let you have this dream?"

Lu Jiaoyue was stunned.

I have to admit that Han Jin is indeed a smart person, and he is very good at drawing inferences from one instance.It was only now that Lu Jiaoyue realized that Uncle Jinzi was smarter than she imagined. It stands to reason that people in their profession are reckless, but he is not. This is probably why others can only be thugs, but he can be a thug. The reason for thugs.

At the same time, inspired by Han Jin, Lu Jiaoyue couldn't help thinking about it.

She suddenly felt that she was too pessimistic before, since God asked her to work hard, there must be some reason for it.She knew that marrying into the Du family would make her miserable, and she knew how to avoid this disaster, so why couldn't the little uncle turn her sorrow into joy?If you know that it is a man-made disaster, then avoid it. If you know that the road may be unsafe, then you should avoid it.

After all, no matter how you look at this business, it is a very profitable business. It would be a pity to give up.

But what to do?

Lu Jiaoyue couldn't help looking up at Han Jin, and Han Jin couldn't help being happy when he saw her begging for help.It's nothing else, but she finally stopped avoiding herself.After what happened during this period, Han Jin felt that he was pushing her too fast. After all, she was only a girl, only 15 years old, and she was timid. It was no wonder she couldn't accept his actions so violently.

At this time, Han Jin couldn't help complaining about Hu San. Whoever told him that the strong girl was afraid of being entangled by her husband was really nonsense.

Thinking of this in his heart, he said slowly: "Don't worry, since we already have a charter in mind, let's do it one by one, and leave it to me. But your little uncle still needs a It will take many months to come back, even if it comes back, it will not be done overnight, we have time to take it slowly."

Lu Jiaoyue thought for a while before she nodded.

Han Jin looked at the sky and said, "It's getting late, I'll take you back."

Only then did Lu Jiaoyue realize that it was getting late, she nodded hurriedly.

When the carriage arrived outside the village, when Lu Jiaoyue got off the carriage, Han Jin suddenly asked, "Do you still like that Yanzhi?"

Shocked in her heart, she saw him drive the carriage away without looking back.

In the blink of an eye, it's time for the autumn harvest.

Daxi Village belongs to the northerly region, the climate is cold, and the crops are harvested once a year, so autumn is also the busiest time for the villagers in the nearby ten miles and eight villages.

The first thing to harvest is wheat, and when the wheat is finished, sorghum, peanuts, sorghum, corn and millet will be harvested next.No rice is grown in this part of Daxi Village. It may be because of the soil quality. The rice grown here is not good, and the harvest is also small. Over time, no one grows rice.

Few people here eat rice. If you want to eat rice, you can sell it at the rice shop in the town, but it is much more expensive than other grains.The staple foods here are sorghum rice, millet (millet), broomcorn rice (similar to millet, larger than millet, commonly known as yellow rice), and cornmeal.

As for wheat, every household grows it, but white flour is a kind of fine grain, and farmers are reluctant to eat it by themselves. They grow it and sell it for money, and then exchange it for coarse grain.Or eat coarse grains mixed with fine grains. Generally, people from better-off families eat this way.

This year, because of the division of the family, the work in the field is not done together, but by each family.Lu Minghai and Lu Guangyi, father and son, were diligent. Seeing that the time was almost up, they hurriedly went to the field to harvest the wheat.

The whole Daxi Village is a bustling scene.

The women of the Lu family don’t go down to work in the fields, and at this time, they can’t be exempt, they can’t do much, they help out with delivering food and water, watching from the side while drying the grain, or men cutting the wheat in front, doing it by themselves. Follow behind to pick up the missing ears of wheat, tie up the ears of wheat and so on.

However, Mrs. Mei felt sorry for Lu Jiaoyue, fearing that she would get sunburned, so she refused to let Lu Jiaoyue come to the field to help.Helpless, Lu Jiaoyue could only take over the chores of doing housework at home and delivering food and water to the family.

It's getting hotter and hotter, and Qiuhu ravages the whole land recklessly.

Lu Jiaoyue was wearing long-sleeved trousers, a straw hat on her head, and a basket with rice on her back, and walked to her own field.

The weather has been fine these few days, and everyone is rushing to take back the grain in the field, then dry it, thresh it and put it in the granary.You must know that the face of the gods is face of the child, and it may change at any time.If there is a heavy rain, the harvest after a year of hard work will suffer.

Except for Lu Jiaoyue and Wulang, the whole family was busy in the fields. Even Lu Guangzhi didn't go to the gambling house recently, but stayed at home to help with the work.

When they arrived in the field, they could see their parents, elder brother, and younger brother bent over and busy in the field from a distance, Lu Jiaoyue called out, and they turned around to eat.

Lu Jiaoyue looked at her father, elder brother, and second younger brother who had dry skin on their faces with some distress, and handed over the jug containing herbal tea.

"Father, mother, elder brother, second younger brother, please drink some water."

He looked at the mother who was in a better situation than the three of them, but who had slandered a lot out of thin air: "Mother, I will come to help in the afternoon."

Mei took off the sweat towel wrapped around his head and face, wiped his sweat and said, "It's just a little bit of work, and you can still do it. You are not too young, and you will soon be blamed for being tanned." It's not good."

This was the first time that Mei had mentioned marriage in front of her daughter since Lu Jiaoyue and Du Lian's marriage failed.Don't look at Mei's face, but she is also anxious. Her daughter is fifteen this year and sixteen next year. Country girls usually get married at sixteen or seventeen, so her daughter's marriage is imminent.

But for a while, she didn't have any good candidates, so she could only pay attention to some progressive young people in the village in her heart, and planned to ask a matchmaker after a while, and try to marry her daughter next year.

Of course Lu Jiaoyue didn't know all this, so when she heard Mei's words, she just smirked and said angrily, "Mother, my daughter doesn't want to marry yet."

"Young lady, what do you want to do if you don't want to marry? Don't worry, Mother will find you a better family than the Du family."

Mrs. Mei accidentally slipped her mouth, Lu Minghai hurriedly gave her a look, and changed the topic.

In fact, I don't blame Mrs. Mei for thinking this way. She has been holding back these words for a long time. Mrs. Mei has always been a strong character, so how could she bear the fact that her daughter was robbed of her marriage.The reason why she endured it was nothing more than to see her husband's face, and secondly, she was afraid that the news would ruin her daughter's reputation.

In this world, women are always treated harshly. If something goes wrong with a girl's family, there are not many people who pick on the man, and most of them are the woman who is blamed.

Apparently Lu Guangyi also understood his parents' scruples, fearing that his sister would feel uncomfortable thinking about that incident, so he followed Lu Minghai to interrupt.A few people went to eat under the shade of a tree, and while talking, they talked about the things in the Lu family's field.

Naturally, the Lu family refers not to Erfang's side, but to Old Man Lu's side.

Seeing that Qiu received it, Old Man Lu and Lu Mingchuan were not lazy, so they got busy early on.Lu Mingshan of the third room wanted to be lazy, but Mrs. Qiao was a man who could afford it, so it was okay to be lazy at ordinary times, and he could not delay in collecting food. Seeing that the upper room and the second room were busy, he also drove the man to the field.Lu Mingshan was so tormented that he could not bear the pain, so there is no need to elaborate.

Only the five mu of land where Old Man Lu married Lu Guili back then has not seen any movement.

The Lu family's land is good, not only because the land is fertile, but also because these lands are connected together, which is easy to take care of, so everyone in the five mu of land knows what's going on.

Speaking of this, I have to talk about some things that happened when I married the five acres of land.

Because the wedding date was a bit unlucky, there was another issue of dowry.Old man Lu said it lightly at the beginning, but afterwards he realized that the grain in the field was about to be harvested, so he planned to give the land to the Du family after the crops in the field were harvested.But when it came to the Du family, there was an obstacle. Widow Du was no fool. The reason why she set the wedding date so urgently was because of the crops in the field.

How much money would it take to exchange five acres of crops, so she begged for nothing to force the Hu family to negotiate a deal, and forced the Lu family to send the land over before Lu Guili and Du Lian got married.

Don't take advantage of the advantages, and now Widow Du can see clearly that the eldest sister just wants to get this bottomless sister-in-law out of Lu's house.Since you want her family to accept it, how can you do it without paying a price.Naturally, she used both hard and soft words to pinch Hu Shi, but Hu Shi could only pinch her nose and swallow this breath because she was hindering her own intentions.

During the period, I don't know how the Hu family persuaded the old man Lu and the old couple. In short, the old couple agreed to send the land to the Du family, and they didn't wait for the food to be collected before sending it.

It stands to reason that things should be fine at this stage, but something has happened to the Du family.Lu's land is in Daxi Village, and Du's is in Du's Village. There is a long distance between them. It is not convenient for Du's to take care of this land.It just so happened that it was the time of the autumn harvest, and the crops in the field had to be handled carefully, and they had to be watered several times a day. Widow Du was really powerless, so she came up with Lu's idea again.

She came to talk to the old man and the old couple in person, explaining the truth and complaining about her difficulties. In a word, she wanted the Lu family to help them wait for the crops for two days.And what is said is that Lu Guili can't do any work at home, and has to wait for her by herself, how hard she is.

For the sake of their daughter, the old couple held their noses and agreed.

Needless to say, how much extra work was done in the meantime. Now that it was time to harvest the grain, the Du family should have come to do it themselves, but so far there has been no movement.

"I think the Du family is relying on your grandfather and the others. I guess they want to collect the food for them." Mei said.

(End of this chapter)