Sweet Garden Sands

Chapter 74 Ke Yushi's Little Feet
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"They don't want to give them all to me!" Ke Weijie ran in like a gust of wind and snatched the meat buns from Ke Mengshi's hand, biting one at a time.

"Eat slowly!" Ke Mengshi was slightly startled and didn't criticize too much, just gave a warning, and took a meat bun for Qin'er and Zhu'er each, and said: "It's okay, eat."

Ke Baosheng also patted Zhu'er's head, and said with a smile, "Eat it, if your mother scolds you, say that uncle forced you to eat it."

Hearing what Ke Baosheng said, Zhu'er immediately stretched out her hand to take the bun happily, and said with a grin, "Thank you grandma, thank you uncle."

"Good boy!" Ke Baosheng looked dotingly at Zhu'er who was eating slowly.

"Qin'er, take it quickly." Seeing that Qin'er was still hesitating, Ke Mengshi stuffed the bun into Qin'er's hand, and said lightly with distress: "What a silly child, you can't eat what grandma gave you! "

"Thank you grandma, thank you uncle." Qin'er thanked, lowered her head and began to eat in small bites.

"Grandma, bring me a bowl of rice, I'm not full yet." Ke Weijie said bossily to Ke Mengshi after eating the meat buns, as if he was the emperor's father.

Ke Mengshi and Ke Zhongshi's couple seemed to be used to his defiant appearance, and they didn't react too much, only Ke Baosheng frowned slightly.

Ke Mengshi took another bowl and served Ke Weijie a bowl of rice with a few chopsticks, and asked him to sit by the bed and eat.

Ke Weijie stared at the meat and fish on the table, pushed Honger away at once, forked a few pieces of braised meat and fish, and walked towards the bed in satisfaction until the bowl couldn't fit.

Ke Hanxue worked very hard to control her anger, not to blow up on the spot.

"I'm stuffed!"

Ke Hanxue took the bowl and chopsticks and left the house, so as not to be angry with herself, anyway, the dishes on the table were bought by my uncle, she doesn't care who they like to eat, they just get used to it.

These few days at the end of the month are the days for handing in silkworm cocoons, and everyone will pick the silkworm cocoons made at home to the village chief's house, and the housekeeper of Ai's family will take people there to collect the silkworm cocoons.

In the past, when the families were not separated, Ke Shuisheng was responsible for picking the silkworm cocoons in baskets to the village chief's house several times. Now that the families are separated, of course each is in charge of his own.

Ke Shuisheng wanted to pull an ox cart to town, so the job of picking silkworm cocoons for Dafang naturally fell on Ke Zhongshi.

Ke Hanxue thought that Ke Zhong's health was not good, so she divided the silkworm cocoons at home into two, and picked the silkworm cocoons to the village head's house with Ke Zhongshi.

The silkworm cocoons are also divided into grades. Some cocoons are larger and the silk is thicker, and the price will be higher. On the contrary, those cocoons are smaller and the silk is thinner. The butler can tell with the naked eye.

There are also many procedures for collecting silkworm cocoons, one is to distinguish the fineness, the other is to weigh, the third is to register in detail, and the fourth is to distribute money to each family.

In this way, it will take longer to harvest the cocoons.

There were many people delivering the cocoons in the morning, so Ke Zhong's mother and daughter delivered the cocoons to the village chief's house after lunch.

But even in the afternoon when sending cocoons, Ke Hanxue still saw a long line of sending cocoons outside the village chief's house from a distance.

"Mother, there are so many people." Ke Hanxue frowned and said, thinking to send it to the village chief's house tomorrow.

"There are too many people and we have to wait. Our cocoon has been formed for several days. If we don't send it to spin, I'm afraid it will soon emerge from the chrysalis." Ke Zhong said.

"Okay." Ke Hanxue looked at the long dragon with a headache and sighed.

To be honest, she really didn't pay much attention to the things in her silkworm room, so she didn't remember when these silkworms made cocoons at all.

Not long after Ke Hanxue and Ke Zhong arrived at the village head's house, Ke Jiang also came.

"Third Aunt, do you still have silkworm cocoons at home?" Ke Hanxue remembered that she picked up a load of silkworm cocoons early in the morning and went out.

"Yes, there are a lot of cocoons produced this time." Ke Jiang replied with a smile on his face. Fortunately, his brother-in-law's mulberry garden was also lent to him. Otherwise, how could her family have enough mulberry leaves to grow these cocoons?
"Third Aunt, how much can you sell your cocoons this time?" Ke Hanxue asked curiously.

"That load in the morning was sold for three hundred Wen, and the housekeeper will have to see the quality of this load to know how much it can sell."

"Third Aunt, you can sell [-] Wen for the load in the morning, and the silkworm cocoons raised in the same way will definitely sell for [-] Wen." Ke Hanxue was really happy for Ke Jiangshi.

With an income of [-] wen a month, the three of them can live frugally for a month.

"It would be great if there were." Ke Jiangshi smiled subtly.

Ke Zhong also smiled and said, "There will definitely be."

When the few villagers in front of the queue heard that Ke Jiangshi could sell such a high price for a load of silkworm cocoons, they all poked their heads to look at the silkworm cocoons in her basket.

"Ke Jiangshi, you are really an expert at raising silkworms in our Shuihe Village, and you can grow such a big cocoon." A middle-aged man looked enviously at the cocoons in Ke Jiang's basket.

"Yes, Mrs. Ke Jiang, do you feed gold to your silkworms? Can this cocoon form so well?" Another young man in his twenties joked.

"If I have gold, do I still need to raise silkworms?" Ke Jiangshi said shyly with a blushing face.

It was only then that Ke Hanxue discovered that the team that came to deliver the cocoons were basically men, and only a few women.

"Hey, isn't that pouting one Ke Yushi?" The young man just now laughed and pointed to a woman carrying a basket in the distance.

As soon as Ke Hanxue looked up, she couldn't help laughing out with a "pop".

After receiving Ke Zhong's reproachful eyes, Ke Hanxue pursed her lips and tried to hold back her smile.

On the trail a few hundred meters away, Ke Yushi was walking here with difficulty on her little lotus feet.

After walking a few steps, he stopped to rest for a while, and after resting, he walked a few more steps and stopped again, looking very embarrassed.

"Yes, it seems to be Ke Yushi! Haha, it's difficult for her little feet to walk, but she can still carry the burden. I really admire her!" Another person laughed.

"Haha~~ Mrs. Ke Yu must be regretting the separation now. Brother Shuisheng used to send the silkworm cocoons. Now that the family is separated and her man is not around, she can only give it away by herself."

Hearing that everyone was making fun of Ke Yushi, Ke Hanxue curled her lips in disdain.

Speaking of which, Ke Yu's parents can be regarded as two strange things.

In this dynasty of labor shortage, which farm family would bind the feet of their daughters?When Ke Yushi first married in Shuihe Village, she was once the object of the chatter of the villagers after dinner.

However, this Mrs. Ke Yu still has a pair of small feet, and he always feels superior to others. From time to time, he shows off his small feet to other women in the village, which arouses the dissatisfaction of the women in the village without knowing it.

"Ke Yushi, if you don't leave, it's going to be dark!" The young man just put his hands to his mouth and shouted to Ke Yushi, and then he laughed.

(End of this chapter)