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Chapter 9 Harvest

When Liang Yimei and Xiao Yilin woke up, Liang Yimu had already prepared breakfast, no, it was breakfast and lunch.After the three of them had eaten, Liang Yimu took them into the mountain to cut firewood.Now that the family has more than seven taels of money, they are not in a hurry to make money. They just sell two barrels of fish every time they go to the market. If there is too much, I am afraid of being jealous. The most important thing now is firewood, which must be bought. Get enough firewood before the snow...

There is only one thin quilt at home, and I have to buy a thicker quilt for the winter. I also need to buy rice and noodles. It is best to buy enough food for the whole winter... Liang Yimu was thinking as he walked, thinking that it would be best to use it later Write it down so you don't forget.

The three of them stayed in the woods all day.After returning, Liang Yimu sorted out all the dry firewood and put it in the backyard to let the sun bask in it, so he didn't have to take it back to the utility room until it was dry.

The days that followed were quiet and regular. Liang Yimu took his younger siblings to the forest to chop firewood when it was not the market, and took his younger siblings to the river to catch fish the day before the market. Put them in the water tank and sell them the next day, and put the smaller ones in the pond, so there are more and more fish in the pond. Every time Liang Yimu takes them to the market, there are not many, only two buckets. That's how the reputation has spread. The manager of the Qian Mansion who bought fish here last time found him again. Every time he went, he had to order five fish, and he wanted to buy them at a price of seventeen cents a catty, but the weather was getting worse. It's cold, and there are fewer people selling fish. Now the price of fish is more than twenty yuan a catty, but Liang Yimu thinks that this fish is worthless after all. It's not good to sell it too high, but he never agrees to sell it cheaply. Go out, just like that, the steward still bought it at twenty Wen a catty.

Every time Liang Yimu enters the city, he will bring his younger siblings with him. First, he and his younger brother are used to cooperating. Every time he sells fish, his younger brother will collect money. Second, he is really worried about leaving his younger sister at home alone. Tianyi misunderstood her sister and ran to the river to get rid of the water.

Liang Yimei continued to study the water flowing out of her hand, not to mention, she actually researched some of it. This water is not endless, and if a large amount of water is exported at one time, it will not be able to supply it. This is in her own pond. The result of the experiment in the pond, so the fish in the pond live very moist, Liang Yimu also wondered why the water in the pond increased in winter?But this water is a renewable resource, no matter how much water she used the day before, the water will come back the next day. When they first came here, the three of them didn't even have anything to eat, and they were so thin that only a handful of bones remained, but now they are all rosy and rosy, especially Xiao Yilin, who is pink and tender every time I see him Liang Yimei had the urge to pinch his face. Under the nourishment of the water, everyone's health is getting better and better. Even the three-year-old Liang Yimei can come back with a bundle of firewood... The third is that I haven't found it yet... …

The family saved more and more money, and more and more firewood. After more than 20 days, the utility room was full of firewood, but Liang Yimu was still worried, and still insisted on taking his younger siblings up the mountain to cut firewood every day after the sun came out... Seeing that the weather was getting colder and colder, the three of them took out the cotton padded clothes, which were left over from previous years. At this time last year, this family was still a happy and well-off family, with a father and a mother, and they always like to make clothes in the countryside. Longer ones, so they can be worn for a longer time, so the cotton clothes of the three of them are all fine.

Everything in this house was taken away by the eldest aunt, because it is said in the village that three brothers and sisters are unlucky, so the parents died early, so these cotton clothes were preserved.

Liang Yimu looked at the gradually gloomy weather. The weather has been getting colder and colder these days. A few days ago, the family started to burn the kang, but it was still cold. It seems that I have to buy quilts tomorrow, otherwise my younger brothers and sisters should be killed. Frozen, especially my younger sister, who has to fall asleep in his arms for the past two days.

After eating, Liang Yimu took out all the pens, inks, papers and inkstones he used in the past, thinking about what to buy tomorrow, he wrote it down.Liang Yimei was taken aback, she didn't expect her elder brother to be able to write, Liang Yilin saw that her sister was not playing with him but just staring at her elder brother, so she said, "Eldest brother is writing, don't bother him, let's play."

"Why can elder brother write?"

"Brother has learned from my husband, I can also write, and I will also be called "San Zi Jing" and "Hundred Surnames"."

It turned out that they had gone to school. It seems that this family was really well-off before, and their father was also very far-sighted, otherwise they would not let both sons go to school.

Liang Yimei threw away the toy in her hand, and crawled over to watch her elder brother write. Although the traditional Chinese characters were difficult to read, she could still tell that it was about things to buy tomorrow.

After finishing writing, Liang Yimu took out all the money he earned these days and counted it again. Because there were too many copper plates and it was not easy to get them, Liang Yimu replaced them with silver. There were 22 taels of silver in total. There were two taels of zero 560 Wen. Liang Yimu packed up the 20 taels and put them close to his body. Then he put the two taels of money in his and his younger brother’s pockets separately, and put the rest in his sister’s. Put it in the pocket of the clothes, and then told the younger brother and sister a few words, then hugged the younger sister to sleep, and got up early tomorrow!
Early the next morning, the three of them went into the city in Grandpa Fifth's donkey cart. Liang Yimu took his younger siblings to see the quilt first. The three went around and charged a half-day price. Finally, Liang Yimu looked at the quilt. Seeing the younger brothers and sisters whose faces were flushed from the cold, she gritted her teeth and bought a ten-jin quilt for a penny. The proprietress looked at the grown-up child and said, "Don't think it's too expensive, brother, our cotton is It's good, that's the next thing, the most wonderful thing is that the cotton we slap is strong, not to mention anything else, you go to the county town to inquire about it, our family's cotton is the strongest, even neighboring counties have gone to I bought it here."

Liang Yimu nodded, took out the money from his pocket to pay, and then said embarrassingly: "Miss Boss, we have to go shopping later, can you put the cotton here first, and come back when we are leaving take?"

The proprietress looked at the three children, the oldest was only eight or nine years old, and the youngest was only three years old, so she smiled and said, "Of course it's fine, but how can the adults in your family feel relieved to let you three children go shopping? What if I lose it?"

Liang Yimu lowered his head, "Both my parents have passed away, and I am the oldest in the family."

The proprietress was startled, her eyes were full of pity, she smiled and said: "I'm really sorry, look at Auntie..."

"It's okay, I still have to thank my aunt, otherwise we would not be able to carry such a big thing at such a young age."

The proprietress smiled all over her face, "What's the matter? You will definitely have to buy other things later. If there are too many, you can ask someone to send them to me. Auntie will look after them for you."

Liang Yimu was overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed: "Then thank you, auntie."

The three of them left the place where the quilts were sold, and because there was a place to store their things, Liang Yimu had no worries, and took his younger siblings directly to the grain shop.

The guy at the grain store didn’t care when he saw the three children walking in, he just gathered around and chatted and laughed. Liang Yimu and the others didn’t mind, as the price was stated on it. For more than 20 days, the three of them ate brown rice, and Liang Yimu didn’t mind either. Wanting to improve, he looked at corn and white noodles. Liang Yimu weighed it in his heart, and asked his younger siblings which one would they like to eat?
When the shopkeeper came out, he saw such a scene. The three children were talking together, and the two guys were also talking around the side. The shopkeeper frowned quietly, and walked over and said: "Brother Want to buy something?"

Seeing the shopkeeper coming out, the man immediately stood up and stood aside to meet him.

Liang Yimu calculated in his heart and said, "I want forty catties of corn and ten catties of white flour."

The shopkeeper was taken aback, the subtext of what he said was that if you don’t buy it, then go away, kids, don’t make trouble here, but he didn’t expect the other party to really buy it, looking at the three children, could it be that the adults have something to go outside? Open so let the kids in to buy things?
The shopkeeper hesitated for a moment and said, "Brother, do you want to buy food?"

Liang Yimu frowned and looked at the shopkeeper. Could it be that what he said just now was not clear enough?Seeing him looking at him suspiciously, it made sense after a little thought. The proprietress who sold the quilt just now looked at him in the same way. Liang Yimu lowered his head and gave a wry smile, then raised his head and said, "Yes, I want forty A catty of corn, ten catties of white flour."

Although the shopkeeper was still a little hesitant, he still packed it for him. Liang Yimei kept looking at the types of grains in the store. She really... saw the black noodles in the corner by mistake. The black noodles are very good. It would be even better if it was made into black-faced steamed buns... Liang Yimei ran over and grabbed the corner of the eldest brother's clothes, pointed at the black-faced buns and said, "I want that!"

Liang Yimu turned his head and saw it, then lowered his head and asked, "Does sister want to eat black noodles?"

Liang Yimei nodded, and Liang Yimu said to the shopkeeper, "Then add another ten catties of black noodles." Anyway, there is no mistake in buying food.

The two young men looked at each other, but the shopkeeper felt that he had seen something, and told the two men to greet each other quickly.

After a while, three bags were finished. "The price of corn is fifteen yuan a catty, the price of white flour is twenty yuan a catty, and the black flour is ten yuan a catty. The total is nine hundred yuan." The shopkeeper said with a smile.

Liang Yimu took out the money from Liang Yilin's body to pay, but he didn't take the bag, he just said: "I wonder if the shopkeeper can help me deliver the things to the place, it's not far away, it's on the street that sells cotton."

"It's easy to talk about. I'll ask the guy to deliver it later. If you want to buy food next time, brother, please come to our store."

Liang Yimu also showed a smile and said: "Definitely!" Liang Yimu left the address.

Liang Yimei and Liang Yilin obediently followed their brother in the streets and alleys, bought oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar, because these things were Xiaozong, so they took them by themselves, but even so, the three of them were exhausted, Liang Yimu couldn't help it. Asking Liang Yimei to take things, just seeing her two elder brothers so tired, Liang Yimei felt uncomfortable empty-handed, so Liang Yimu had no choice but to let her take some unimportant things.

When they came to the vegetable market, Liang Yimu took his younger siblings straight to the meat market. For more than 20 days, the three of them ate fish for three meals a day. No, it should be said that they ate stewed fish. It will be boring.Now that the family is better, I want to have a meal of meat anyway.

Pork belly is more expensive at eighteen cents a catty, while lean meat is only fifteen cents a catty. Looking at so much lean meat, Liang Yimei just feels wasteful. How can this be so?Do you know how expensive lean meat is in later generations, but it can’t compare to pork belly here?Although Liang Yimei could understand that ancient people preferred fat pork because of poor oil extraction technology, she still couldn't accept it. Seeing that Liang Yimu wanted to buy pork belly, she immediately pointed to lean meat and said, "I want this, I want this."

Liang Yimu hesitated for a moment and said, "Sister, we can afford pork belly now."

Liang Yimei shook her head, it's not that there is no oil, didn't she buy oil just now? "Just like this."

Liang Yimu has always loved his younger sister, so he listened to her on such innocuous matters, thinking that it would not be easy to come out, so he said: "Then let me have a catty of lean meat."

"Okay, little brother, do you want some more pork belly? My pork belly is very fat and produces a lot of oil." He said, cutting off a catty of lean meat.

Liang Yimu shook his head, Liang Yimei stared at the shaved big bones aside, pulled Liang Yimu's clothes and said, "I still have this, I want this too." Now the three are children, it's time to supplement nutrition , They have to do so much work every day, and the only food they can eat is fish and brown rice. The nutrition is too little, so they just boil a big bone soup for drinking.

Liang Yimu followed what she was pointing at, saw that it was a big bone, and was about to say something, Xiao Yilin slapped her hand and said: "That one has no meat, so I won't buy it."

"Buy it, I want it, brother buy it!"

Liang Yimu also persuaded: "That one has no meat, it's not tasty."

The pork seller next to him said: "Brother, if you want it, I'll give you three pennies. Take all of it. Anyway, I usually take it back and give it to the dog. Three pennies is not too much."

Looking at his stubborn sister, Liang Yimu nodded helplessly, and handed over eighteen Wen coins.Except for the two taels of silver, there are only four hundred Wen left in his pocket.

I finally caught up with the last train, and I will update two chapters tomorrow
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