Sweet Garden Sands

Chapter 52 Buying a Plowshare

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"Let's take a break first, I'll take the vegetables to heat up." Ke Mengshi said and was about to take the vegetables away.

"Grandma, don't need to heat it up. The weather is not cold now, so it doesn't matter if it's cold!" Tian Deshui said, picked up a steamed bun and tore it open, picked up a chopstick and started to eat vegetables.

Seeing that everyone started to eat, Ke Mengshi hurriedly distributed the salted eggs among them and said, "Put the salted eggs in together, it will be delicious."

"Okay, grandma, you can eat too." Zhong Detian took the salted egg with a smile.

"Mother, why don't I stop pulling the cart for a few days, and dig the ground for a few days." Ke Shuisheng took a bite of the steamed bun and looked at his wife anxiously.

My daughter-in-law's natal family has come to help. As the head of the family, he can't be so picky and go to pull a cart to make money, right?

"no!"

As soon as Ke Shuisheng finished speaking, Ke Hanxue stopped him.

"Father, the job of pulling the ox cart can't be left behind. I heard that the people who rode in our ox cart fell out with Dasha that day. Dasha won't let them ride in the cart anymore. If you don't pull the cart, those people What can I do if I want to go to town? And what about the shopkeeper of the 'Zhou Ji' flour shop?" Ke Hanxue said in a stern voice.

If the old man's ox cart wants to be pulled for a long time, he has to keep his word and be responsible to the villagers, and he must also be responsible to the shopkeeper of the "Zhou Ji" flour shop.

"That's right, Shui Sheng, the job of pulling the ox cart can't be left behind." Zhong Detian also persuaded him. He heard from his sister that pulling the ox cart can earn tens of pennies a day. The sky and the earth can't let Shui Sheng stop this work.

"But big brother..."

"Shuisheng, I mean the same thing as my elder brother. You can buy a lot of things with a few tens of pennies, don't let it get you!" Zhong Deshui, who always spoke straightforwardly, interrupted Ke Shuisheng.

"Father, you just listen to uncle and uncle." Ke Hanxue pondered for a while, then asked: "Father, are there any plowshares for plowing in the town?"

"There should be something for sale!" Ke Shuisheng replied without thinking. Before raising silkworms, he saw that there were shops selling plowshares in the town. In recent years, plowshares have become less and less common, but You should be able to find it.

"Father, besides buying some food tomorrow, you can also buy a pear head. This will save you a lot of time."

"That's right, our family has cows now, and we can use pears!" Ke Shuisheng patted his head and said as if he had just woken up from a dream.

Just as Ke Shuisheng shouted happily, his face suddenly darkened again: "You won't let me stop pulling the ox cart, what are you doing buying a plowshare?"

Ke Hanxue smiled and said: "Father, I asked you to buy a plowshare, not to let you plow the field during the day, but to see if my uncle or second uncle can plow the field, and wait for you to drive the ox cart home in the evening After that, let the uncle or uncle plow the land."

And the plowing time should not be too long, otherwise the cattle would be exhausted.

"Big Brother, when I was young, I borrowed cattle from others to plow the land." Zhong Deshui said.

Zhong Detian nodded and said: "I used to plow, but that was more than ten or twenty years ago. It may take a day or two to get familiar with it."

"Brother, I think it's better for you to teach me how to plow the land." Ke Shuisheng said, it's fine if he doesn't go to the field to help during the day, but if he doesn't go tonight, it's really unreasonable. After all, it's his family land.

"You have to pull the cart during the day, and if you go to the ground at night, your body will be overwhelmed. Let me do it." Zhong Detian said.

Ke Shuisheng wanted to say something more, but Ke Zhongshi opened his mouth and tugged his sleeve lightly, saying: "You should listen to elder brother, at worst let elder brother rest at home in the afternoon and plow the field at night."

Seeing that his daughter-in-law had spoken, Ke Shuisheng didn't say anything, but felt uneasy in his heart.

After dinner, Ke Shuisheng and Zhong's family went to the field for more than an hour before coming back to wash and sleep.

Ke Hanxue gave up her bed, and ran to squeeze a bed with Qin'er Zhuer, while Ke Zhongshi went to squeeze with Ke Mengshi, but even so, there was still not enough room to sleep, so she had to make another bed on the floor up.

Early the next morning, Ke Hanxue heard the sound of the courtyard door opening. She hurriedly put on a thin coat and went out to see what happened.

"Uncle, Uncle, why don't you sleep for a while, it's still not bright yet!" As soon as Ke Hanxue came out of the yard, he saw Brother Zhong Detian carrying a hoe and going out.

"We've had enough sleep!" The two replied in a low voice, closing the courtyard door behind their hands, and left.

Ke Hanxue sighed, went into her parents' room, measured some rice, and came out to make porridge.

After cooking the porridge, Ke Hanxue put the remaining steamed buns from last night into a small cloth bag, and asked his father to take them to the town to eat with his sister.

Ke Hanxue fried the vegetables, brought the porridge and vegetables into the house, and Ke Shuisheng also woke up.

Seeing a few young people still sleeping, Ke Shuisheng and Ke Hanxue tiptoed out of the house.

"Father, I put your and sister's lunch in a bag. I will remember to take it to the town later. I will go to the field to pick mulberry leaves first." Ke Hanxue said in a low voice.

At this time, Ke Zhong also came out of her mother-in-law's room and said, "Xue'er, I'll go with you."

"Mother, there are not many mulberry leaves here, so don't go." The mother's body is just a bit better, and Ke Hanxue doesn't want her to be too tired.

Ke Hanxue told his father some things to buy, and repeatedly told him to bargain with others, and then went to the mulberry garden with the basket.

Ke Shuisheng drank a few sips of porridge indiscriminately and drove away in the ox cart. He thought that if he bought the plowshare earlier, the land at home could be plowed earlier.

At noon, Ke Hanxue steamed the steamed buns again, but this time only vegetables can be used to sandwich the steamed buns, because the salted eggs were eaten yesterday.

Although there were only steamed buns, the Zhong family didn't have a single complaint. Instead, they ate more steadily and happily.

Ke Hanxue hooked her lips, this is the real relative!

In the evening, Ke Shuisheng returned with two bags full of things and a plowshare.

"Father, have you bought a plowshare?" This plowshare is not the same as the plowshare Ke Hanxue has seen in his previous life, but it is enough to use it.

"I found this plowshare after searching several stores. I heard that it was left over from a few years ago. It is well preserved and has no raw embroidery. It only costs fifteen yuan." Ke Shuisheng seemed very happy.

"Only fifteen cents?" Ke Hanxue said in surprise.

"That's right, the boss said he sold it to me at a loss, otherwise it would be a pile of scrap metal after a long time. The fifteen cents is not enough to buy a chicken!" Ke Shuisheng couldn't say how happy he was to find such a bargain. .

"Father, did you buy a chicken?" Seeing that one of the cloth bags seemed to be moving, and hearing what his father said, Ke Hanxue guessed that he must have bought a chicken.

"Bought a chicken, and the things you promised to buy."

After Ke Shuisheng carried the cloth bag into the house, he unloaded the cart, put the plow on the back of the ox first, and pulled the ox into the field.

(End of this chapter)