Reborn farmhouse busy farming

Chapter 47

Changhui Niang placed little Changhui on the kang, while she stretched her neck and kept looking out the door.She was so curious about this Yinger, who would raise a maid to eat at home if she had nothing to do?Especially this maid is still the kind who looks very attractive, it is really worrying to put it on anyone.Thinking of this, she couldn't help admiring Yao Shi deeply. She could sit still with such a vixen in the house. If Chang Hui grew up in the future and brought such a servant girl in from outside, she would definitely go first. If she strangled her to death, she would never let her hook up with her own children.

Seeing that both Fang Shi and Luo Tian came in, Changhui Niang couldn't hold back her curiosity and said: "She has been pulling you to talk for a long time, what is she going to do?"

Fang sighed, and said: "What good thing can there be? I don't know what she thinks. She dragged me and talked for a long time today, and wanted to borrow money from me."

Changhui Niang was at a loss for words for a moment, and after a while she said again: "Then you lent it to her?"

Fang glanced at her, and replied helplessly: "It's not like you don't know what's going on in my family. Where can I lend her spare money?"

"That's right." Changhui Niang nodded, "Which one of our peasants is facing the loess with his back to the sky. After a whole year of hard work, he can't fetch a few catties of grain, can't exchange a few dollars, and can't fill his mouths. , who has that spare money.” Then asked: “What is she borrowing money for?”

Fang shook her head and said, "I didn't ask." She had no money to borrow, so it would be meaningless to ask any more.

Changhui Niang thought about it for a while, and said quite cautiously: "I thought that this might not be a good thing, I said you have to be careful, don't be dragged into it by the people in that room again."

Fang also laughed, and said: "How can it be! I'll just guard these two children, and don't get involved anywhere, so what can happen." She sat down for a while, recalling Yinger's pale face , couldn't help reminding me of the time when I lived with Yao Shi when the family was not separated, and sighed again, and said: "Don't say that she is also pitiful. Her clothes and jewelry were all taken off by her grandma when she entered the door." , and it’s being worn on Ningning’s body now, or else she really needs money, and she can’t make up the few hundred coins.”

Changhui Niang couldn't help but sighed again, "You're a sinner". After all, Yao Shi was still her elder, so she really couldn't say anything disrespectful to Yao Shi, but when she thought about it occasionally, she also felt that Yao Shi's actions were a little too much.People who are so old, not only for themselves, but for their children and grandchildren, they should speak and act kindly.

She sighed for a while, and when she saw little Changhui beside her, she remembered the purpose of coming to Luo's house on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and hurriedly pushed Changhui, saying, "What are you still doing sitting here? Hurry up and send a New Year greeting to Mr. That's what I teach you in the morning."

Little Changhui has probably been educated by Changhui Niang long ago, even if he is reluctant at this time, he can only stand up slowly, while repeating a few auspicious words taught by Changhui Niang to the elders when they greet the New Year over and over again. several times.

Fang happily held him down, and said: "Don't get up, just sit on the kang, the ground is cold." After speaking, he went to get a red envelope and handed it to Chang Hui.

Chang Hui Niang reciprocated, and also stuffed Luo Mingdu and Luo Tiandu with a red envelope.She also wanted to lead Xiao Changhui to pay New Year's greetings to other elders' homes, and after saying a few words, she led Changhui back.

As soon as the people left, Luo Tiandu opened the red envelope in his hand, and put the penny into the piggy bank, probably because the piggy bank was still relatively empty, and only heard the copper coin dripping into the piggy bank. It spun around several times before finally stopping.

Fang's red envelope to Changhui also contained a penny, and Changhui's mother also paid a penny in return, but her family has two children, and each penny is two pennies, so their family is more profitable.Luo Tian couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it really is easier to do things with more people, even when collecting lucky money during the Chinese New Year, families with more children are more advantageous than other families.

Winter is the rarest day of leisure for crops, and Luo Baisu seized this time even more, never leaving his books day and night, wishing he could take advantage of this time to read more books and make up for the wasted ten years.

However, Luo Tiandu felt that if he really wanted to study, he still had to find a learned teacher to teach him. Sometimes the teacher gave some casual advice, which was more effective than thinking about it for ten days and a half months alone.But the entire Qiushui Town has only one school. I heard that there used to be a very learned gentleman who taught for a few years. He has gone, but he is no where to be found, and the teacher who is teaching now is just a scholar who has failed in the exam for many years, so he can't help Luo Baisu much in terms of knowledge.

The conditions of the county school must be better, but Qiushui Town is not too close to Jinyong County, and it takes four or five hours to go back and forth. If Luo Baisu wants to go to the county school, he has to live in the county. It's no different than in Luojia Village, where food and lodging cost a lot of money, which is definitely not a small expense, considering the current conditions of their family, it must not be able to afford it.

She thought for a while but couldn't think of any good idea, so she had to give it up. She had no money at hand, and it was useless to think about it. She should give some thought to Luo Mingdu's education. The eight-year-old child is about to die. Nine years old, you can't know everything.

She taught Luo Mingdu the words he should recognize today, and then took out the self-made account book and started to keep accounts.The ledger was made by cutting discarded red paper into the same size, and then asked Fang to order it.It records the family's daily expenditure and income in detail, so that it is clear at a glance how much their family spends, how much they earn, and where the most important expenditure is in life.

Fang took a look at the ledger, but she couldn't understand it like a ghostly drawn talisman.She has always been very strange, if you say that Luo Tian is very smart, she can recognize characters very quickly, this has been confirmed by Luo Baisu, whoever teaches her to recognize characters, will never forget them, she loves them even if she is fine. Write and do calculations, but the written characters are like those drawn by chicken paws, with circles and bends, which look like lively earthworms.Her own handwriting was ugly, and even Luo Ming followed her to learn from her, so she ruined a good seed.

"It's a good thing for you to read, but it's also good for female celebrities. A girl who can't hold a needle or catch a thread will make people laugh if she tells it." Although Fang thinks that reading and literacy is a good thing, but a For a girl's family, be a good female celebrity, know how to clean up the housework, and know how to live is your duty. Otherwise, how should you live when you really come to your husband's house? "

Luo Tiandu frowned, and said: "I'm teaching eldest sister how to run a family and live a life, isn't it better than being bored at home every day and being a female celebrity?"

Fang was laughed out of anger again: "The head of the house is living a life. Your father and I are here now. Do you need to worry about how to live this day? Besides, there are only four living people in our family. Are you teaching your sister who to be in charge of?" Home? It’s okay to be a female celebrity with your sister, embroider two pieces of handkerchief, and sell it for two yuan for a piece of candy.”

Luo Tiandu settled the accounts for her: "Mother, a piece of handkerchief includes silk cloth, colored thread, and embroidery time. Staring at such a small piece of rag every day makes my eyes burn out, so I changed it." A penny, according to me, this is a money-losing business."

"Then what kind of business do you say is not a money-losing business?" Fang felt that it was very fresh, "Is it like you to draw a few circles on the paper every day to make a living?"

Luo Tiandu chuckled, bared his teeth and said proudly to Fang Shi: "Mother, you are really right." After finishing speaking, before Fang Shi could answer, he reported the income and expenses of the family since the separation to yesterday. , and the amount of food that a family of four would need to eat every month, she calculated it clearly. In the end, she even said how much money Fang had in hand.

Only then did Fang startle.

"Mother, you have to be like this to be the head of the family. If the eldest sister learns this skill, she will be able to run the house well in the future, and she will not have to worry about food and drink."

As the saying goes, "If you don't go out on the first day of the new year, you will visit your father-in-law on the second day, visit your sisters on the third day, and visit your relatives on the fourth day." After the fifth day, the village gradually becomes lively, and more people visit homes.

The fact that Luo Tiandu taught Luo Mingdu and little Changhui arithmetic at home had long been spread through Changhui's mother, and there was an endless stream of people who came to Luo's house to watch the excitement.Every time I come here, I have to tease Luo Tiandu once, and ask to read the arithmetic problems written by Luo Tiandu. Fang is like all the mothers who dote on children in the world. The red paper that Luo Tian had used in the past was shown off. Although everyone couldn't understand it, they still thought it was amazing.

What can a five-year-old do?My own mud monkey is a bit bigger than Luo Tian, ​​and he spends all day chasing chickens and dogs at home, never having a moment of leisure, and sighs for a moment that she is the daughter of a scholar, and it really is different.

Luo Tian was annoyed by the noise, so he simply put on a little jacket, hat and gloves, wrapped himself up tightly, and went out to the field.She spent a lot of effort on the ten acres of rapeseed at home, and she never forgot to look into the field. This time, because of the Chinese New Year, she didn't look into the field for half a month.

Because it snowed several times in a row, even though the sun was out for a few days during the period, the snow on the ground still hadn't completely melted, and it had turned into ice, which was very slippery.Luo Tian moved carefully step by step, and it took a lot of hard work to get to the field.

What is gratifying is that after a whole winter of severe cold, the rapeseed in the field is still growing well and looks green. Some of them have already started to bolt, and it will not take long for them to form flower buds.Only then did Luo Tiandu feel relieved, and saw that some weeds had begun to break through the ground, so he thought about weeding when the weather was better, otherwise the land would be thin and the nutrients would be divided by the weeds. If the fertilizer is not supplied, the rapeseed will only bloom and not set seeds, which will affect the harvest.

She walked around her own field once, and when she reached the ridges by the road, she suddenly felt something was wrong.At the beginning, the family planted rapeseed according to what she said, planting a few trees in a row, and the row spacing was considered good. Now the few rows of rapeseed near the roadside seem to be much thinner.She took a closer look, then bent down to push aside the leaves and counted them. Sure enough, there were quite a few of them missing. Some of the places that should have been rapeseed seedlings now only had a small pit or a broken root. It looked like it had been pulled out a lot.

(End of this chapter)