The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 6 Can't afford scissors and can't afford salt
Before Chu Ying arrived at Uncle Qiu's stable, she heard Uncle Qiu's urging voice, "Hurry up, clear the warehouse, there are still goods in the back." Boss Qiu, you are so busy. "
"It's not all done by you, a quick girl. I told you yesterday that you can cut more. Today, so many came, and the warehouse hasn't been cleared yet. Do you think you are too busy?" Mr. Qiu The chubby body was tired and sweated a lot.

"It's true that I'm inexperienced, so I should have let you know. This is the last trip today, come on, are you all moving in?" Uncle Qiu saw that Chu Ying was about to go inside after seeing that Chu Ying was carrying two bundles of grass.

"Oh, it's just your thin arms and legs, don't move anymore, come on, let's go to pay the bills. Hurry up, this one is cleaned up, and the one next door is also cleaned up." Chu Ying followed the silver shining Boss Qiu arrived at the tent.

"Chu Ying, you, let's just do it in the past two days. In a few days, after the autumn harvest, the guys will go back to help, and then there will be no one to move it. It's 7 cents and 20 cents, you count." Chu Sakura held the heavy 7 strings of copper plates and couldn't stand up. "Trust Boss Qiu, then I'll go first and come back tomorrow."
"Stand firm, don't fall." Boss Qiu found it funny seeing Chu Ying stumbling.

Chu Ying got into the car and began to divide the money. Before, Grandpa Li went there once to do other work, but now it costs 20 Wen for a round trip, so put Grandpa Li's 1 money and 20 Wen next to him. "Then start counting other people's. The three of them have a total of 60 Wen, the difference is not too big, and it will be fine to divide it when the time comes.

Chu Ying covered the copper plates with her clothes, and when she had some money, she felt that other people were thinking about her, and she felt that she didn't have the freedom to walk around casually when she was penniless.

At night, Chu Ying put the rest of the fish tail in the rice and cooked it together. "Little fish, good boy. I'll eat you later." Looking at the money lying on the ground, Chu Ying thought about what to buy tomorrow, feeling as if she suddenly turned over as a serf and sang.

But when I arrived at the market, I realized that no matter how much money I had, it was not enough to spend. Chu Ying bought 15 catties of rice for 4 months, and spent 1 yuan and 80 yuan, which was a sudden loss of 1 yuan. String money, or buy poor ones and dare not buy expensive ones.

When I arrived at the cloth shop, a piece of blue linen cost 120 Wen a piece, and I bought it for 4 Wen a foot, and one piece could make 3-4 sets of clothes. The finer linen cost 200 Wen a piece, and I bought it for 6 Wen a foot.Chu Ying bought one each, and some writing needles and thread brains cost a total of 3 yuan.

After taking out the money, there are only 73 Wen and the 60 Wen to be given to Brother Wang and the others.Chu Ying didn't dare to take a look at the cloths that were laid out, for fear of frightening her eyes.

Originally, she wanted to go shopping, but after buying rice and cloth, she had nothing left, so Chu Ying could only go back and continue mowing the grass.Fortunately, everyone progressed very quickly on the second day, and I kept some leftovers for myself to use as firewood.When Chu Ying took the last trip to check out and came back, it was still daylight, and Lu Meng’s family had something to do, so she went back first. Chu Ying took out the 6 strings of money she had just made, first gave Grandpa Li 1 money, and then gave Brother Wang 1 money 10 Wen asked Brother Wang to share the money.

"Chu Ying, you see that you don't have any land to collect. How about doing me a favor after the autumn harvest in a few days? I can't give you the money, but you can share the harvested millet." Brother Wang gave the money to Qian Yong. Come ask Chu Ying for help.Autumn harvest is the most important thing for farmers in a year. After a year of hard work, it depends on whether the harvest is timely or not.

"Of course, I'm fine anyway, just don't dislike me for being slow." Qian Yong also got up from the haystack as they chatted about the autumn harvest.

"Chu Ying, you can't be partial, and you will come to help my family when the autumn harvest comes." Brother Wang pushed Qian Yong who was booing behind him. "Do you need someone to help you with your place?"
"It's ok, but Brother Wang said it first, I can only go to your house to help after Brother Wang's help." Qian Yong pinched Chu Ying's busy blushing face.

"Chu Ying is the best, so I'll go first." Qian Yong shook the money string with his hands and made a face at Wang Naiyuan.

Wang Naiyuan saw Qian Yong pinching Chu Ying, and just wanted to open his hand. "Then I'll go first too." Wang Naiyuan saw that Chu Ying was busy cleaning up and didn't want to disturb her.

"Enen, if you need my help in the future, just tell me, I will try my best." Chu Ying saw that the sky was not yet dark, so she first made a simple torch with sticks and grass.

Before closing the door, I carefully looked at the place where I buried the money to make sure there were no traces before going to the lake. I didn't come for several days and I don't know if there are new visitors in the trap.

When the cage was pulled up, Chu Ying yelled out of joy. Inside lay a struggling big fish with long arms. Chu Ying calmed down and patted it unconscious. , although the other cages didn't harvest anything, Chu Ying was really happy to have this big fish.

It seemed that everything was starting to get better, and the sky turned dark on the way, and the prepared torches came in handy, and when they got home, the torches were about to go out, so Chu Ying lit the fire by the moonlight.

Since there is only one pot, Chu Ying can only cook first, handle the fish first, cut it in half, and put half of it in a bucket with well water. It is also good to eat it tomorrow or take it to Aunt Wang. Although they are close neighbors, they still need to get along well with each other.

It was a little cold when the fish soup was ready, but it was still very satisfying.Picking her teeth with a fishbone, Chu Ying thought that there were still a few months left, and she still had 5 cents and 23 cents in her hands, so she didn't know how else to make money.

Chu Ying got up early and took half of yesterday's fish to Aunt Wang.Aunt Wang also got up early and had already fed the chickens, and was packing up to go to the field.

"Ms. Wang, this is the fish I caught yesterday. I'll give you half of it. You said it's good to cook fish. I hope the neighbors will take care of each other in the future."

Aunt Wang took the half fresh fish and looked at Chu Ying who had tied up her hair and put it in a small bag. The fish was brought into the house.

"No, Mrs. Wang, next time I catch fish, you can teach me. I'll go first."

Chu Ying quickened her pace and went to the entrance of the village to take Grandpa Li's bullock cart. If she didn't come sooner, it would probably be noon when Grandpa Li came back to take her there.

Chu Ying first went to the grocery store to buy a sturdy pannier, which cost 20 Wen.Although the ones I made by myself are usable, they are not durable, so I went to buy salted ginger and a bowl, which cost 15 Wen.

Salt costs 10 Wen per catty. I suddenly felt that I couldn’t afford salt anymore, and salt was different from other supplies. I had to go to a place that sold salt, and I could only buy one catty at a time. No wonder Aunt Wang only gave I gave myself such a pinch of salt, the fish in the morning was right, and I should repay the kindness of the salt.

In the case of no income, if you can save a little, you can earn money, so Chu Ying didn't go shopping, because she was afraid that she would not be able to hold on, and finally went to the blacksmith's shop to see if there were any cheap scissors.

The master blacksmith watched as Chu Ying went straight to the pile of old irons, digging her head into the pile.Although I've seen someone pick a broken iron, but I've never seen her pick it up without looking at it directly, without pretending to be pretending.

Chu Ying looked at it for a long time and only saw a pair of scissors that couldn't close. She struggled for a long time because she didn't have the ability to trim knives, so she didn't know what to do.

"Have you picked it out yet? There are only a few pieces to choose from. Why are you squatting there?" The blacksmith saw that she was staring blankly at the broken scissors and didn't know what she was thinking.

"It's finished, master, can you repair it? I can go home and grind it myself." Scissors can be used no better than knives, and the master blacksmith pointed to the new scissors on the wooden board with a hammer.

"It's troublesome to repair, you can buy a new one, you can't sharpen it well when you take it back, the scissors are no longer usable." Chu Ying looked at the prices next to the scissors, compared them, and could only reluctantly choose a longer one Scissors.

Thinking about the master who repaired and sharpened scissors in the village when I was a child, this scissors may be really difficult to repair.

Chu Ying put a string of money in the pottery pot containing the money, looked at the master blacksmith who was still expressionless, and made up her mind to be reincarnated as an ancient blacksmith or a blacksmith's wife in her next life.

A pair of scissors cost 1 yuan, and Chu Ying already felt so painful that she couldn't breathe.Looking at the ax and knife next to me, I felt that it would be a long time before I could bring them home.

(End of this chapter)