Farmer's Ruyi Manor

Chapter 71
"Mother, let's get our things back into the house first, we'll talk about things later, the village chief's cousin is also tired." Xiao Hua first agreed with Jing Niang, seeing so many things on the ox cart, she tidied up first.

After the village chief has gone back, Jingniang and Mrs. Ruan have already packed up the barrels and other things. Except for the small pillars, the three women are all sitting on the small tree in the yard, waiting for Xiaohua to speak. .

"Mother, the small wooden barrel is for me to take a bath. You can put it in my room when the time comes, and the big one will be used by you and grandma. The other two big ones are for us to use by ourselves. Return the ones from Aunt Wang's house to her, and they will always be borrowed from others." The ones are not very good. But when Aunt Wang lent us the new ones, otherwise, we would return all the new big urns to Aunt Wang, and the new ones of Aunt Wang have already been worn out by us, so we Just keep using it, what do you think?"

"Well, your grandma and I were thinking about this reason just now." After listening to Jing Niang's words, Xiao Hua turned to look at Old Madam Ruan, who also nodded when she saw her, and then resumed the topic just now.

"Okay, since that's the case, let's send the new one back to Aunt Wang later. By the way, mother, I suddenly remembered that our water tank leaks badly. You have to carry water every two days. If you don’t mind the big wooden barrel, I’ll use it as a water tank. If you don’t mind my wooden barrel, you can use that to take a bath.” After speaking, she looked at Old Madam Ruan and Jing Niang.

In fact, Mrs. Ruan felt sorry for her daughter-in-law very much. She had to travel so far to carry water, and she was too tired. Her daughter-in-law, a weak woman, was doing everything from chopping firewood to carrying water at home.It would be great if there is a good water tank, so that the daughter-in-law can also use less water.

"Okay, then this will be decided like this first. In addition, you can put away the rice, oil and salt I bought back. Our family has to buy rice every time. Mom, I want to buy some fields. I bought a lot of seeds. By the way, I bought 20 catties of cotton. Cotton is cheap now, so I will buy it first. It will be too expensive. There are four of us in our family, and each of us has a quilt that weighs 5 catties."

In fact, the 5 catties quilt at that time was quite thick and warm enough.Jing Niang and Mrs. Ruan also listened to the same reasoning, and bought it now while it was cheap, otherwise the weather would be cold and the price would be expensive.Might as well buy it now.

"But Xiao Hua, where did you get the money to buy these things? What's the matter with so much cloth?" Jing Niang asked the biggest doubt in her and Ruan's mind.

"Mother, it's like this. I signed a contract with Yuelai Restaurant. From now on, the dried bamboo shoots will be directly supplied to their family, and will not be given to Boss Huang of Fushou Restaurant. In order to make up for us, he gave me 5 taels of silver. In addition, the sour bamboo shoots and sour bamboo shoots Spicy bamboo shoots are sold to Yuelai Restaurant for 12 cents a catty..."

Jing Niang and Mrs. Ruan were in a mess, only listening to all kinds of money, and talking about all kinds of money earned by Xiaohua.This is money that they can't earn in their entire lives, and Xiao Hua earns it all in one trip to the town.They were all dizzy, and they haven't recovered yet.

"By the way, mother, tomorrow the owners of Yuelai Restaurant and Fushou Restaurant will come to buy water chestnuts. I plan to sell only half of them. We have some money now. We will buy a field first, and we will grow water chestnuts. And the vegetable seeds I bought, we They all need to be planted. In addition, look around to see if there are any water chestnuts, and we will dig them all back." Xiaohua called her grandmother and mother a few times, and after calling them back to God, she ordered.

"Well, mother understands." The farm is the lifeblood of farmers, of course, if you have money, you will buy the farm first.

"Xiaohua, how much money did you make in total?" Mrs. Ruan hadn't recovered from the money at the moment.When Jing Niang heard her mother-in-law asking this question, she also looked curious.

"Grandma, I made a total of 26 taels and 66 Wen. But I bought rice, oil, salt, cotton, wooden barrels, urns, seeds, etc., and spent 2 taels and 573. And this time because it is a village The eldest cousin took me there, and there must be a lot of things in the house that need his help in the future, so I gave the village head uncle a tael of silver. Mom, grandma, you won’t blame me for making decisions without authorization, right?” Xiaohua looked timid. He looked timidly at Jing Niang and Mrs. Ruan, fearing that their thinking was too pedantic, and they didn't even understand this bit of human sophistication, so they would blame her.

"That's right. How could grandma and your mother blame you? It's hard for you to be so sensible." Old Madam Ruan looked relieved, and Jing Niang also nodded.

"Mother, I put the 20 Wen you gave me in my bag, and I haven't touched it. I'll give you the money in a while. And I bought a lot of cloth, and there are two numb horses. Mom, you can send one to me." Aunt Wang, thanks to their family for helping us during this time." Jing Niang and Ruan Granny looked at the cloth on the table, but did not move.

Xiaohua ran into the house, hid her banknotes and five taels of silver, and took out all the remaining silver.

"Mother, grandma, look at these. I haven't touched these 20 taels, and these four are five taels of silver. In addition, the 4 Wen here was given to me by your mother that day, and these are 20 taels and 2 Wen. Money. It’s what’s left after shopping. Our family has to give 486 taels and 2 Wen to Aunt Wang’s house, mother, are you counting it right?” He said and put 84 taels and 20 Wen on the old lady Ruan’s side, more than 20 taels Put the broken silver to Jingniang's side and let her count.

Jing Niang and Mrs. Ruan had never seen so much money in their life. They were stunned and couldn't help themselves. Xiao Hua pushed them, and their eyes gradually focused from the silver side.

Jingniang and Mrs. Ruan held the money with trembling hands, it was not considered at all, which made Xiaohua a little funny.

"Mother, grandma, this is nothing. In the future, Xiaohua will earn more money for you. If you are just dumbfounded now, what will happen in the future?"

Jingniang and Mrs. Ruan blushed slightly as they watched being teased by their precious daughter (granddaughter), feeling a little embarrassed.

"Grandma's good granddaughter, grandma trusts you." Mrs. Ruan was actually very embarrassed. She had lived a long time and the family was broken down like this. In the end, she had to rely on her 8-year-old granddaughter to support her. Deeply feel that I am so useless.

At this time, Jing Niang also had this kind of mentality, so she couldn't help feeling guilty towards Xiao Hua, thinking in her heart that no matter what Xiao Hua did in the future, they would not ask questions and would silently support her behind her back.

"Grandma, mother, how about you take a look at this cloth?" Xiao Hua took a grandma and a mother into the house.

Looking at the cloth on the table, it would be a lie to say that Jing Niang and Mrs. Ruan were not excited.They had never worn such fine cloth, and even when they were married it was only sackcloth.

You must know that a piece of linen costs sixty or seventy renminbi, which is equivalent to several months' wages for the head of the family, and a piece of linen is only enough to make a few sets of clothes.

It can also be seen from this that most of the people in Chengjiakeng wear mended and mended clothes, which is why Xiaohua felt that what she was wearing was tattered.

"Grandma, this blue cloth is for you, and the other one is for my grandma and aunt during the Dragon Boat Festival. The other navy blue one is for Xiaozhu, and the other one is for my grandpa and uncle. The next one is for me and my mother. Grandma, I will let you wear better clothes next year or two, and these are only temporary now." Xiaohua was actually a little afraid that grandma would mind that she gave so much cloth to grandma and grandpa's house.

(End of this chapter)